1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, so Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”
2 Then he said, “Look! I’ve heard that there’s grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some grain for us there so that we’ll live and not die.”
3 So Joseph’s brothers went down, ten of them, to buy grain from Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send, for he said, “An accident might happen to him.”
5 The sons of Israel went to buy grain among the others who were coming, because the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was the ruler over the land. He was the provider of grain for all the people of the earth.