1 Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2 And he said, “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 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers for he said, “Perhaps some harm might happen to him.”
5 Thus the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.