The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin

43 Now the famine was severe in the land.^(A)

² And when they had eaten up the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again; buy us a little more food.”

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.

¹¹ I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

²⁷ The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.^(A)

²² Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.^(A)