'Buy' in the Bible
And [the people of] all countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the [known] earth.
He said, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy [some] grain for us, so that we may live and not die [of starvation].”
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
So the sons of Israel came [to Egypt] to buy grain along with the others who were coming, for famine was in the land of Canaan also.
When Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them, but [hiding his identity] he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
But they said to him, “No, my lord, for your servants have [only] come to buy food.
And it happened that when the families of Jacob’s sons had finished eating [all of] the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.
and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down here the first time to buy food;
We have also brought down with us additional money to buy food; we do not know who put our money [back] in our sacks [last time].”
Our father said, ‘Go back [to Egypt], and buy us a little food.’
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived on the amount which Pharaoh gave them, so they did not sell their land.