Genesis 42:2 - Modern English Version

² And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For, he said, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; get down there and buy [grain] for us, that we may live and not die.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

Common English Bible

² I’ve just heard that there’s grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we can survive and not starve to death.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I have heard that wheat is being sold in Egypt. Go down and buy necessities for us, so that we may be able to live, and not be consumed by destitution."

Genesis 42:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 42:3

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

Genesis 43:2

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.”

Genesis 43:4

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

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, and also our little ones.

Genesis 45:9

Hurry and go up to my father and say to 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 shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

Psalm 33:18

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His lovingkindness,

Psalm 33:19

to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.”

Matthew 4:4

But He answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ”

Acts 7:12

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.