King James Version (KJV)

Genesis 42:5

“And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.”

Verse in context — Genesis 42

3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

5

And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6

And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.

7

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

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