Genesis 42:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

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But they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest is today with our father, and one is not.

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.

But Benjamin, Joseph's [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.

So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.