Genesis 42:2 ““Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down…”

Genesis 42:2

“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.”

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, and bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

Darby Translation

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy [grain] for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.

Young's Literal Translation

he saith also, 'Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

Bible in Basic English

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

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Cross references

“get you”

Genesis 43:2 Genesis 43:4 Genesis 45:9

Genesis 43:2 · BSB

So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 43:4 · BSB

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Genesis 45:9 · BSB

Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

“that we”

Genesis 43:8 Psalm 118:17 Isaiah 38:1 Matthew 4:4

Genesis 43:8 · BSB

And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

Psalm 118:17 · BSB

I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.

Isaiah 38:1 · BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

Matthew 4:4 · BSB

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Read Genesis 42