Genesis 42:1

When Iacob sawe that there was corne to be solde in Egipte he sayde vnto his sones: why are ye negligent?

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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

2beholde I haue hearde that there is corne to be solde in Egipte. Gete you thither and bye vs corne fro thece that we maye lyue and not dye.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:57And all countrees came to Egipte to Ioseph for to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.

Acts 7:12But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte he sent oure fathers fyrst

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 →

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