² For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.”

² If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them^[a] because you do not lay it to heart.^(A)

⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and let us be on our way, so that we may live and not die—you and we and also our little ones.

² I have heard,” he said, “that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”^(A)

⁵⁷ Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.