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.
5. And so the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since there was famine in the land of Canaan.
6. Joseph, as governor of the country, was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. When Joseph’s brothers came, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.