rsv Genesis:42:1-6
rsv@Genesis:42:1 @ When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
rsv@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die."
rsv@Genesis:42:3 @ So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
rsv@Genesis:42:4 @ But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might befall him.
rsv@Genesis:42:5 @ Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
rsv@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.