Genesis 42:3

3 And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
] They obeyed their father's orders, and immediately set out for Egypt; "ten" of them went down in a body together, all but Benjamin, so that it is easily reckoned who they were, and they are called not Jacob's sons, as they were; but Joseph's brethren, whom they had sold into Egypt, and to whom now they were going, though they knew it not, to buy corn of him in their necessity, and to whom they would be obliged to yield obeisance, as they did.

Genesis 42:3 In-Context

1 When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

2 Then he said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die."

3 And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.

5 Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those [other people] who went [as well], for there was famine in the land of Canaan.