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Genesis 42:3
Genesis 42:3 is verse 3 of Genesis chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
King James Version
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
World English Bible
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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Genesis 42:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
2 “Look,” he added, “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 ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
5 So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 42:5So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:13But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”