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Genesis 42:3
So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:3 · Bible in Basic English
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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, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?
2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
3 So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.
5 And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.
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