Genesis 43:1
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The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin
43 Now the famine was severe in the land.(A)
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Genesis 43:2
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2 And when they had eaten up the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again; buy us a little more food.”
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Genesis 45:7
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7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.
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Genesis 45:11
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11 I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’
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Genesis 46:27
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27 The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.(A)
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Deuteronomy 10:22
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22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.(A)
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Hosea 12:12
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12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 12.12 Heb lacks sheep
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