Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 When Jacob found out grain was available in Egypt, he asked his sons, “Why do you keep on looking at each other to do something?2 I've heard there's grain in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us so we can stay alive—if not, we're going to die!”

3 So ten of Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.4 But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his other brothers, for he said, “I'm afraid something bad might happen to him.”5 So Israel's sons went to buy grain along with everyone else, because there was famine in Canaan too.

6 Joseph was the governor of the country and he sold grain to all the people there. So Joseph's brothers went to him, and bowed low before him with their faces to the ground.7 Joseph recognized them as soon as he saw them, but he acted like a stranger towards them and spoke to them in a severe way, saying, “Where are you from?”

“From the country of Canaan,” they replied. “We've come to buy food.”

Genesis 42: 1-7