Genesis 42:5 “So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since th…”

Genesis 42:5

So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

Darby Translation

So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

Bible in Basic English

And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

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Cross references

“for”

Genesis 12:10 Genesis 41:57 Acts 7:11 Genesis 26:1 Acts 11:28

Genesis 12:10 · BSB

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 41:57 · BSB

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Acts 7:11 · BSB

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

Genesis 26:1 · BSB

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Acts 11:28 · BSB

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

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

In context

4But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

6Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

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