1. Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2. And he said, “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.”
3. Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
4. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers for he said, “Perhaps some harm might happen to him.”
5. Thus the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.