When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, “Go back. Buy us a little food.”
But if anyone does not provide for his own, especially those in his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
She considers a field and buys it. From the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Better is little with the fear of Adonai than great wealth with turmoil.
“I beg your pardon, my lord!” they said. “We indeed came down on the previous occasion to buy grain for food.
If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy grain for you for food.
Now the famine was severe in the land.
But Judah said to him, “The man warned us firmly saying, ‘You won’t see my face unless your brother is with you.’
Then our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little grain for food.’