'Buy' in the Bible
Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.
Listen,” he went on, “I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.”
So 10 of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.“Where do you come from?” he asked.“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.
“No, my lord. Your servants have come to buy food,” they said.
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.”
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
They said, “Sir, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.
We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in the bags.”
But our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food.’
Why should we die here in front of you—both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won’t become desolate.”