56 When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians,(A) for the famine(B) was severe throughout Egypt.(C) 57 And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph,(D) because the famine was severe everywhere.(E)

Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt

42 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt,(F) he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?” He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us,(G) so that we may live and not die.”(H)

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