Genesis 42:3

New American Bible - revised edition

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

“We your servants,” they said, “are twelve brothers, sons of a certain man in Canaan; but the youngest one is at present with our father, and the other one is no more.”

Genesis 42:2

He went on, “I hear that grain is for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, that we may stay alive and not die.”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought some disaster might befall him.

Genesis 42:5

And so the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since there was famine in the land of Canaan.