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Genesis 42:5

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

4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

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BSB
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
KJV
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
WEB
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
ASV
And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
DARBY
So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
BLB
And the sons of Israel came to buy in the midst the ones coming, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
ÅB
Så kom Israels sønner for å kjøpe korn blant alle de andre som kom; for det var hungersnød i Kana'ans land.
OTB
Så Israels sønner var blant dem som dro for å kjøpe korn, for hungersnøden var også i Kanaans land.
B1930
Så kom Israels sønner for å kjøpe korn blandt alle de andre som kom; for det var hungersnød i Kana'ans land.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 41:57

    And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

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  • Genesis 12:10

    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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  • Acts 7:11

    Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

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  • Genesis 26:1

    Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

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  • Acts 11:28

    One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

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