Genesis 42:5
King James VersionSource notes
“And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.”
Context
2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6And Joseph the governor over the land, he that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him their faces to the earth.
7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.