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


In Context

2 He said, |Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.|

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

4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, |Lest perhaps harm happen to him.|

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

6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, |Where did you come from?| 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 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 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.