Book 1 God Created Man and Earth
Genesis|41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.
Genesis|42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another.
Genesis|42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis|42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis|42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Genesis|42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|42:6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.
Genesis|42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye. And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis|42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis|42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Genesis|42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. GENESIS | Holy Bible | Old Testament | King James | Book 1 God Created Man and Earth
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