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Genesis Chapter 42 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 42:3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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BBE Genesis 42:3

So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
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DARBY Genesis 42:3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt.
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KJV Genesis 42:3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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WBT Genesis 42:3

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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WEB Genesis 42:3

Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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YLT Genesis 42:3

and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And Joseph's ten brethren went down - either it was for safety that all the ten went, or because, the corn being sold to individuals, the quantity received would depend on their numbers (Lange) - to buy corn - the word for corn, בָּר, if not a primitive, like the Latin far (Furst), may be derived from בָּרַר, to separate, sever, choose out, hence purify (Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Gesenius), and may describe grain as that which has been cleaned from chaff, as in Jeremiah 4:11 - in (literally, from, i.e. corn to be brought from) Egypt.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Joseph's ten brethren.--Either their cattle and households had been already greatly reduced by the mortality caused by the famine, or each patriarch must have taken a number of servants with him, if the corn carried home was to be enough to be of any real use. We learn, however, that they still possessed flocks and herds when they went down into Egypt (Genesis 47:1), and also households of servants (Genesis 46:5, where see Note). Joseph, moreover, besides the wagons and their contents, sends twenty loads of provisions for the use of his father by the way (Genesis 45:21-23), showing thereby that there were very many mouths to feed. Probably, therefore, there was some small amount of rain in Palestine, though not enough for the support of crops of corn. There would be, however, supplies of milk and flesh, but not much more.