"And the sons of Israel came to buy {corn} among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan." — Genesis 42:5

Genesis 42:5 · KJV

“And the sons of Israel came to buy {corn} among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.”

— Genesis 42:5

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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 — Context

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

And the sons of Israel came to buy {corn} among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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. {roughly...: Heb. hard things with them}

Cross References

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.

Acts 7:11

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine {was} grievous in the land.

Genesis 26:1

And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

Acts 11:28

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.