SinaiGenesis 42:5
American Standard Version
And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 42:5 in other translations
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:5 in context
- 3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- 4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.
- 5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- 6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
- 7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.