Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
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