Genesis 42:3

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

They replied, “Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”

Genesis 42:2

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.”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “What if some accident happens to him?”

Genesis 42:5

So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.