The Second Journey to Egypt

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

² 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)

⁷ 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)

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)

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)

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)