Genesis 42:1-5

1When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other?

2Listen,” he went on, “I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.”

3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

5The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.