1
When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
2
And he said, "Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die."
3
So Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
4
But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "Lest some calamity befall him."
5
And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6
Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth.