So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan. The youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt. Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.