3And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Though Jacob’s sons were all married, and had families of their own, yet, it should seem, they were still incorporated in one society, under the conduct and presidency of their father Jacob. We have here, I. The orders he gave them to go and buy corn in Egypt, Gen. 42:1 , 2 . Observe, 1. The famine was grievous in the land of Canaan. It is observable that all the three patriarchs, to whom Canaan w…
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