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Genesis 42:3
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:3 · American Standard Version
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Genesis 42:3 in other translations
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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In context
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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.
3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
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