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Chapter 42

Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt

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Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why are you staring at one another?"
He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy [some] for us from that place, so that we may live and not die."