Genesis 42:3

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Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Canaan was the land where Jacob and his family lived, roughly corresponding to parts of the southern Levant. Egypt, southwest of Canaan along the Nile, had grain during the famine, so Jacob sent Joseph’s brothers there to buy food, advancing God’s providential preservation of the family.

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Genesis 42:3 mentions Canaan and Egypt.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato