Gen 42:2, 5-6, 43:1, 45:11, 47:13 | ESV | STEP | And he said , Behold , I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt . Go down and buy grain for us there , that we may live and not die .

Genesis 42:2

2 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may ^alive and not die.”

Genesis 42:5-6

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

6 Now Joseph was governor ^bover the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and ^cbowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 43:1

Joseph’s Brothers Return to Egypt

1 Now the famine was ^dsevere in the land.

Genesis 45:11

11 ^eThere I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’

Genesis 47:13

Joseph and the Famine

13 Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.