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


In Context

2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: go down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest perhaps mischief shall befall him.

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

6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:5So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan also.

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 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.