1. During the famine in Canaan, Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt. So he said to his sons, “Why are you sitting here doing nothing?
2. I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go there and buy grain for us so that we will live and not die!”
3. So ten of Joseph’s brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.
4. Jacob did not send Benjamin. (Benjamin was Joseph’s only full brother.) Jacob was afraid that something bad might happen to Benjamin.
5. The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.