Genesis 42:2

New English Translation

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may 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 they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 43:4

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

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die – we and you and our little ones.

Genesis 45:9

Now go up to my father quickly and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

Psalm 118:17

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

Psalm 33:18

Look, the Lord takes notice of his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness

Psalm 33:19

by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

Matthew 4:4

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Acts 7:12

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.