¹ Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

¹² But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

⁷ But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

¹³ When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

¹⁴ Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

⁴ Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

³ And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

⁴ Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Now, give me an account of all the great things Elisha has done.

³ And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

¹⁰ Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?

¹⁸ And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

¹⁹ Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

² And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

⁵⁷ And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

⁵⁴ Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.