Genesis 42:3
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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ASV
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
KJV
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. They obeyed their father's orders, and immediately set out for Egypt; "ten" of them went down in a body together, all but Benjamin, so that it is easily reckoned who they were, and they are called not Jacob's sons, as they were; but Joseph's brethren, whom they had sold into Egypt, and to whom now they were going, though they knew it not, to buy corn of him in their necessity, and to whom they would be obliged to yield obeisance, as they did.
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Genesis 42:13But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
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returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and…
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that…
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Genesis 42:5So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
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And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.