Joseph's Brothers Return to Egypt

43 Now the famine was ^(A)severe in the land.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

¹⁰ Now ^(A)there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹ Now ^(A)there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. ^12 (B)But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. ¹³ And ^(C)on the second visit ^(D)Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and ^(E)Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.

Death Comes to All

9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, ^(A)how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are ^(B)in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. ^2 (C)It is the same for all, since ^(D)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,^[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who ^(E)swears is as he who shuns an oath.

⁵ Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁵⁴ and ^(A)the seven years of famine began to come, ^(B)as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

⁵⁶ So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses^[a] and ^(C)sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^(D)over all the earth.

¹³ The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’