Genesis 43:20

They said, “Sir, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.

Genesis 42:3

So 10 of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:10

“No, my lord. Your servants have come to buy food,” they said.

Genesis 42:27

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.

Genesis 42:35

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of money! When they and their father saw their bags of money, they were afraid.

Genesis 43:3

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43:7

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”

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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
But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 42:3
So 10 of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Genesis 43:2
When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us some food.”

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