Genesis 43:2

The Passion Translation

When all the grain they had brought from Egypt was almost gone, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us more food.”

Cross References

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine in the land continued to grow more severe.

Genesis 43:20

“If you please, my lord,” they said, “we came here once before to buy food,

Genesis 43:3

But Judah objected, “The Egyptian warned us repeatedly, ‘You will not see my face again, unless Benjamin is with you!’

Genesis 43:4

We’ll only go if you’ll let our brother come with us.

Genesis 44:25

“Sometime later, our father said to us, ‘Go back and buy some more food for us.’

Proverbs 15:16

It’s much better to live simply, surrounded in holy awe and worship of God, than to have great wealth with a home full of trouble.

Proverbs 16:18

Your boast becomes a prophecy of a future failure. The higher you lift yourself up in pride, the harder you’ll fall in disgrace.

Proverbs 31:16

She sets her heart upon a field and takes it as her own. She labors there to plant the living vines.

1 Timothy 5:8

For if a believer fails to provide for their own relatives when they are in need, they have compromised their convictions of faith and need to be corrected, for they are living worse than the unbelievers.