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Genesis 42:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.” "

Genesis 42:2

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1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

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

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

4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

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Genesis 43:2

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

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

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Nehemiah 5:2

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"For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”"

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Acts 7:34

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"I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’"

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Jeremiah 42:14

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"saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell;”’"

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Genesis 42:1

"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”"

Genesis 42:3

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

Genesis 42:4

"But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”"

Genesis 42:5

"The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan."

Genesis 42:6

"Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth."

Genesis 42:7

"Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”"

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