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Joseph's brothers return to Egypt

43 The famine was still bad in Canaan. Jacob's family ate all the food that they had brought from Egypt. So Jacob said to his sons, ‘Go back to Egypt, and buy some more food for us.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 43:2 God had changed Jacob's name to ‘Israel’, but the Bible continues to use both names for the same person. We are using the name ‘Jacob’ here.