Genesis 42:3

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 42:3 (WEB)
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies I.18Book I
“…(tribes), and the ten courts of the tabernacle, and the columns of ten cubits [high], and the ten sons of Jacob who were at first sent into Egypt to buy corn, and the ten apostles to whom the Lord appeared after His resurrection,—Thomas being absent,—represented, according to them, the invisible Decad.” — editor's note: Gen. xlii. 3.
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