Genesis 42:5
King James Version (KJV)
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
In context
3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis 42:5 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- WEB World English Bible
- The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,
- DBY Darby Translation
- So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.