When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why don't you do something?

The sons of Jacob came with others to buy grain, because there was famine in the land of Canaan.

You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened.

Otherwise, the Egyptians will say that you were unable to take your people into the land that you had promised them. They will say that you took your people out into the desert to kill them, because you hated them.

The LORD sent famine to their country and took away all their food.

But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every other country, but there was food throughout Egypt.

The famine grew worse and spread over the whole country, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.