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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

42:1 look one upon another. Jacob’s sons probably realized they might eventually have to get grain in Egypt, but they also knew that was where they had dispatched Joseph. Their furtive glances at this time suggest that they had already discussed this situation among themselves.


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