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The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin

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

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The Second Journey to Egypt

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

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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.”

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So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt,(A) their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”(B)

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

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But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(A) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of 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.’

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11 I will provide for you there,(A) because five years of famine(B) are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’(C)

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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)

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27 With the two sons[a] who had been born to Joseph in Egypt,(A) the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy[b] in all.(B)

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  1. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew; Septuagint the nine children
  2. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew (see also Exodus 1:5 and note); Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14) seventy-five

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)

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22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,(A) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.(B)

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12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
    there Israel served for a wife,
    and for a wife he guarded sheep.[a](A)

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  1. 12.12 Heb lacks sheep

12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram[a];(A)
    Israel served to get a wife,
    and to pay for her he tended sheep.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 12:12 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia