And Jacob, having seen that there was a sale [of grain] in Egypt, said to his sons, Why do look at one another?

And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed.

Lest the inhabitants of the land from which You brought us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which He spoke to them, and because He hated them, has He brought them forth to slay them in the wilderness.

Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole support of bread.

He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph said; and there was a famine in all the land; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.