So 10 of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”
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.”
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”
The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.