And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, 'Why do you look at each other?'

And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;

And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.

and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt hath been bread;

And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all [places] which have [corn] in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,