Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
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Genesis 42:1–4
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Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
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He 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.”
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Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
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