The Two Journeys of the Sons of Jacob to Egypt (xlii. 1-25; cf. Gen. xlii., xliii.).
XLII. And in the first year of the third week of
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4 3 . And the Egyptians came to Joseph that he might give them food, and he opened the storehouses where was the grain of the first year, and he sold it to the people of the land for gold. 5 4. (Now the famine was very sore in the land of Canaan), and Jacob heard that there
1 11. And he said: "My son will not go down with you lest perchance he fall sick; for their mother gave birth to two sons, and one hath perished, and this one also ye will take from me. If perchance he took a fever on the road, 2 ye would bring down my old age with sorrow unto death." 12. For he saw that their money had been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he feared to send him. 13. And the famine increased and became sore in the land of Canaan, and in all lands save in the land of Egypt, for many of the children of the Egyptians had stored up their seed for food from the time when they saw Joseph gathering seed together
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Footnotes
191:4 Cf. Gen. xli. 54.
191:5 Cf. Gen. xli. 56.
192:1 ? An interpretation of Gen. xlii. 36 (" All these things are against me ").
192:2 "If mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go" (Gen. xlii. 38).
194:1 Cf. Gen. xliv. 1, 2.
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