Genesis 42:2

New Century Version

I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:3

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

Genesis 43:2

When Jacob’s family had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, Jacob said to them, “Go to Egypt again and buy a little more grain for us to eat.”

Genesis 43:4

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

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Jacob, “Send Benjamin with me, and we will go at once so that we, you, and our children may live and not die.

Genesis 45:9

“So leave quickly and go to my father. Tell him, ‘Your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all Egypt. Come down to me quickly.

Psalm 118:17

I will not die, but live, and I will tell what the Lord has done.

Psalm 33:18

But the Lord looks after those who fear him, those who put their hope in his love.

Psalm 33:19

He saves them from death and spares their lives in times of hunger.

Isaiah 38:1

At that time Hezekiah became very sick; he was almost dead. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him and told him, “This is what the Lord says: Make arrangements, because you are not going to live, but die.”

Matthew 4:4

Jesus answered, “It is written in the Scriptures, ‘A person lives not on bread alone, but by everything God says.’ ”

Acts 7:12

But when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons there. This was their first trip to Egypt.