1. When Jacob learned that grain rations were for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons: “Why do you keep looking at one another?”
2. He went on, “I hear that grain is for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, that we may stay alive and not die.”
3. So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4. But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought some disaster might befall him.