Genesis 43:2
and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'
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- Gen 42:1-2 : 1 And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, `Why do you look at each other?' 2 he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'
- Gen 43:4 : 4 if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,
- Gen 43:20 : 20 and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;
- Prov 15:16 : 16 Better `is' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.
- Prov 16:18 : 18 Before destruction `is' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
- Prov 31:16 : 16 She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.
- 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
- 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment; 7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; 8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;
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- Gen 44:23-264 verses88%
23 and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.
24 `And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;
25 and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,
26 and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us.
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1 And the famine `is' severe in the land;
- Gen 42:1-33 verses84%
1 And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, `Why do you look at each other?'
2 he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'
3 and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
- Gen 43:3-42 verses82%
3 And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you;
4 if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,
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5 And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,
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20 and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;
- Gen 43:6-83 verses79%
6 And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
7 and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'
8 And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
- Acts 7:11-122 verses78%
11 `And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,
12 and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;
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25 And they go up out of Egypt, and come in to the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,
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29 And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying,
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33 `And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye `are' right men -- one of your brethren leave with me, and `for' the famine of your houses take ye and go,
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55 and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people crieth unto Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh saith to all the Egyptians, `Go unto Joseph; that which he saith to you -- do.'
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25 And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels `with' corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so.
- Gen 43:12-132 verses76%
12 and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it `is' an oversight.
13 `And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;
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15 And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;
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7 And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan -- to buy food.'
- Gen 47:12-132 verses76%
12 and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father `with' bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
13 And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine `is' very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;
- Gen 45:17-182 verses76%
17 and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan,
18 and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.
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22 and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.'
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35 And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man's silver `is' in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid;
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10 And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;
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25 And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take `them' down to Egypt.
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23 and to his father he hath sent thus: ten asses bearing of the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing corn and bread, even food for his father for the way.
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5 And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, `Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee:
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57 and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
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15 And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'