5So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.


In Context

2 He continued, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."

3 Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.

5 So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.

6 Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "From the land of Canaan," they replied, "to buy food."

Genesis 42:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:5And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:5So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.