Genesis 43:20

And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,

Genesis 42:3

And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:10

And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Genesis 42:27

And one [of them later] opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money--behold, it [was] in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 42:35

And it happened [that when] they emptied their sacks, behold, each one's pouch of money [was] in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed.

Genesis 43:3

Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.'

Genesis 43:7

And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring down your brother'?"

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And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

We came indeed down

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We came indeed down

Genesis 43:3
Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.'
Genesis 42:3
And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Genesis 43:2
And it happened [that] as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."