Now when Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why are you looking at each other?

And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

As for you, you had devised evil against me; but God had planned it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

lest the land from which You have brought us should say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.

Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

He sent a man before them; Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

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

And the famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.