“When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 43 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.