Genesis 42:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And he said, “See, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and buy for us there, and let us 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

And Yosĕ

Genesis 43:2

And it came to be, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Mitsrayim, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

Genesis 43:4

“If you let our brother go with us, we go down and buy you food.

Genesis 43:8

And Yehuḏ

Genesis 45:9

“Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Yosĕ

Psalm 118:17

Let me not die, but live, And declare the works of Yah.

Psalm 33:18

See, the eye of יהוה  is on those fearing Him, On those waiting for His kindness,

Psalm 33:19

To deliver their being from death, And to keep them alive during scarcity of food.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Ḥ

Matthew 4:4

But He answering, said, “It has been written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of יהוה.’ ”

Acts 7:12

“But Yaʽ