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## Genesis 42:1-2 in Context (Verses 1–5 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/genesis/42/1) Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
 
 [2 ](/kjv/genesis/42/2) And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/genesis/42/3) ¶ And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/genesis/42/4) But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
 
 [5 ](/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.
 
[Genesis 41](/kjv/genesis/41) [Genesis 43](/kjv/genesis/43)

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