Genesis 42:4
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.
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3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves. If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 35:16They journeyed on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had hard labor.
Genesis 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, so that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
Genesis 44:20We said to my master, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. But his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'
Genesis 44:29Now if you also take this one from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.'
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:2-7
Jacob Sends to Egypt to Buy Corn. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befal him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to… Read the whole commentary →