Genesis Chapter 42 verse 5 Holy Bible
And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
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So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came - literally, in the midst of the comers; not as being desirous to lose themselves in the multitudes, as if troubled by an alarming presentiment (Lange), which is forced and unnatural; but either as forming a part of a caravan of Canaanites (Lawson), or simply as arriving among ethers who came from the same necessity (Keil). For the famine was in the land of Canaan. The statements in this verse concerning the descent of Joseph's brethren to Egypt, and the prevalence of the famine in the land of Canaan, both of which have already been sufficiently announced (vide ver. 3; Genesis 41:57; Genesis 42:2), are neither useless repetitions nor proofs of different authorship, but simply the customary recapitulations which mark the commencement of a new paragraph or section of the history, viz., that in which Joseph's first interview with his brethren is described (cf. 'Quarry on Genesis,' pp. 556, 557).
