Genesis 42:1-5 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

1. When Jacob learnt that there was corn in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why don't you do something?

2. I hear that there is corn in Egypt; go there and buy some to keep us from starving to death.”

3. So Joseph's ten half-brothers went to buy corn in Egypt,

4. but Jacob did not send Joseph's full-brother Benjamin with them, because he was afraid that something might happen to him.

5. The sons of Jacob came with others to buy corn, because there was famine in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42