| Book | Verses |
| Genesis 41:55 | And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. |
| Genesis 41:56 | And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:57 | And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. |
| Genesis 42:1 | Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? |
| Genesis 42:2 | 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. |
| Genesis 42:3 | And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. |
| Genesis 42:4 | But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. |
| Genesis 42:5 | And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. |
| Genesis 42:6 | And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. |
| Genesis 42:7 | And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. |