Bible verse

Genesis 42:1

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

Genesis 42:1 · BSB

Genesis 42:1 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 42.

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

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.”

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

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

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.

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Genesis 42:1 in other translations

KJV

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

ASV

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

ERV

Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

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