Parallel Bible results for "genesis 42:1-6"

Genesis 42:1-6

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1 When Jacob heard that grain was available in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you standing around looking at one another?
1 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”
2 I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy enough grain to keep us alive. Otherwise we’ll die.”
2 He continued, “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 So Joseph’s ten older brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain.
3 Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 But Jacob wouldn’t let Joseph’s younger brother, Benjamin, go with them, for fear some harm might come to him.
4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.
5 So Jacob’s sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.
5 So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.
6 Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.
6 Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
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