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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 42, Verse 2

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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
And 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.
New English Translation
He then said,“Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”
World English Bible
He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
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And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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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.
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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.
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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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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.
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.