Genesis 42:2

Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Genesis 42:2 (WEB)
He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy II.5Book II
“Was not Jacob blessed who, leaving his father’s house, endured exile as a shepherd for pay, and mourned for the violated chastity of his daughter, and suffered hunger?” — editor's note: Gen. xlii. 2.
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