and put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same place where Joseph was being kept.

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

But now his people have been plundered; they are locked up in dungeons and hidden away in prisons. They were robbed and plundered, with no one to come to their rescue.

They were furious with me and had me beaten and locked up in the house of Jonathan, the court secretary, whose house had been made into a prison.

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

I hear that there is grain in Egypt; go there and buy some to keep us from starving to death."

The brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain they had bought, and then they left.

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

The famine in Canaan got worse,

and when the family of Jacob had eaten all the grain which had been brought from Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Go back and buy a little food for us."

He sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best Egyptian goods and ten donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for the trip.