Genesis 42:1

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

In Context

2He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

Read all of Genesis 42

Cross References

Genesis 41:57All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Exodus 5:19The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”

Joshua 7:10The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

2 Kings 8:3At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

Jeremiah 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1

We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 42:1