Genesis 42:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Listen,’ he went on, ‘I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For, he said, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; get down there and buy [grain] for us, that we may live and not die.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

Common English Bible

² I’ve just heard that there’s grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we can survive and not starve to death.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I have heard that wheat is being sold in Egypt. Go down and buy necessities for us, so that we may be able to live, and not be consumed by destitution."

Genesis 42:2 Cross References

Genesis 42:3

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 43:2

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’

Genesis 43:4

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Israel, ‘Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die #– #neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

Genesis 45:9

‘Return quickly to my father and say to him, “This is what your son Joseph says: ‘God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Set your house in order,  for you are about to die; you will not recover.” ’

Matthew 4:4

He answered, ‘It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’   ,

Acts 7:12

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.