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Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."

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highlighted Genesis 42:6 ESV

Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

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highlighted Genesis 42:5 ESV

Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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highlighted Genesis 42:4 ESV

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.

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highlighted Genesis 42:3 ESV

So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

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highlighted Genesis 42:2 ESV

And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die."

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highlighted Genesis 42:1 ESV

When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

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highlighted Genesis 41:57 ESV

Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

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highlighted Genesis 41:56 ESV

So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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highlighted Genesis 41:55 ESV

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

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highlighted Genesis 41:54 ESV

and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

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highlighted Genesis 41:53 ESV

The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end,

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highlighted Genesis 41:52 ESV

The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

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highlighted Genesis 41:51 ESV

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

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highlighted Genesis 41:50 ESV

Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.

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highlighted Genesis 41:49 ESV

And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

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