Genesis 42:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

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  • Acts 7:12 : 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
  • Gal 2:7 : 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
  • Gen 41:57 : 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
  • Gen 42:2 : 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."
  • Exod 5:19 : 19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
  • Josh 7:10 : 10 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
  • 2 Kgs 8:3-4 : 3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land. 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done."
  • Ezra 10:4 : 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 The famine was severe in the land.

    2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

  • Gen 42:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    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."

  • Acts 7:12
    78%

    12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

  • Gen 42:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

    29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  • Gen 41:57
    73%

    57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

  • Gen 41:55
    73%

    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Gen 45:17
    73%

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 42:33
    73%

    33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

  • Gen 48:8
    73%

    8 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

  • Gen 46:6
    73%

    6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

  • Gen 42:35
    73%

    35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

  • Gen 42:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

    13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

    14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

  • Gen 45:25
    72%

    25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  • Gen 37:25
    72%

    25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

  • Gen 45:12
    72%

    12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

  • Gen 45:4
    72%

    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:25
    72%

    25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

  • Gen 44:21
    72%

    21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

  • Gen 47:19
    72%

    19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

  • Gen 40:7
    72%

    7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

  • Gen 43:7
    72%

    7 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

  • Gen 46:32
    72%

    32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Gen 44:25
    72%

    25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

  • Gen 42:10
    71%

    10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.