1 When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”
2 He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain 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, “What if some accident happens to him?”
5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.