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Genesis 43:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us some food.”

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Now the famine in the land was severe.

They said, “Sir, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

But our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food.’

Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure with turmoil.

Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

She evaluates a field and buys it; she plants a vineyard with her earnings.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, that is his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.