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Genesis 42:3

American Standard Version

And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Genesis 42:3 in other translations

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:3 · World English Bible

Genesis 42:3 in context

  1. 1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
  2. 2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
  3. 3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
  4. 4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.
  5. 5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.