Genesis 42:5
Genesis chapter 42 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Context
v.4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.
v.5This passage
v.6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:57
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.
- Acts 7:11
Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
- Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 26:1
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
- Acts 11:28
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.