Genesis 42:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So ten of Joseph's brethren went to buy grain in Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Common English Bible

³ So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And so, when ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain in Egypt,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

Genesis 42:3 Cross References

Genesis 42:13

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of a certain man in the land of Canaan; the youngest, however, is now with our father, and one is no more.”

Genesis 42:2

I have heard,” he said, “that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.

Genesis 42:5

Thus the sons of Israel were among the people who came to buy grain, for the famine had reached the land of Canaan.