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.