Joseph’s Brothers Sent to Egypt
Genesis 42:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- KJV
- ¶ And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
- WEB
- Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- ASV
- And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- LSV
- and the ten brothers of Joseph go down to buy grain in Egypt,
- YLT
- and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
- DBY
- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt.
- DRC
- So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
- GNV
- So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.
- JPS
- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.
- LXXE
- And the ten brethren of Joseph went down to buy corn out of Egypt.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֲחֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף עֲשָׂרָ֑ה לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר בָּ֖ר מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- Κατέβησαν δὲ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ Ἰωσὴφ οἱ δέκα, πρίασθαι σῖτον ἐξ Αἰγύπτου·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 42:5So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 42:13But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
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