Genesis 42:3
World English Bible (WEB)
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
In context
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- KJV King James Version
- And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.