Genesis 42:1

Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt

1When aJacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

Genesis 42:5

5Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 50:20

20As for you, you meant evil against me, but bGod meant it for good, to bring it about that many people
Or a numerous people
should be kept alive, as they are today.

Deuteronomy 9:28

28lest the land from which you brought us say, dBecause the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”

Psalms 105:16-17

16 When he esummoned a famine on the land
and fbroke all supply
Hebrew staff
of bread,
17he had hsent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who was isold as a slave.
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