Genesis 42:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:10 : 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
  • Gen 41:57 : 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
  • Acts 7:11 : 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
  • Gen 26:1 : 1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
  • Acts 11:28 : 28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

    2He 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."

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

  • Gen 41:54-57
    4 verses
    85%

    54The 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.

    55When 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."

    56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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

  • Gen 42:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6Joseph 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.

    7Joseph 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."

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1The famine was severe in the land.

    2It 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 42:10
    78%

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

  • Gen 47:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    13There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

    14Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

    15When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

  • Acts 7:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

  • Gen 43:20
    75%

    20and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

  • Gen 45:4
    75%

    4Joseph 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 45:6
    75%

    6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Gen 47:4
    74%

    4They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 41:36
    74%

    36The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

  • Gen 47:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Why 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."

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 43:15
    74%

    15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 47:1
    74%

    1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."