Cross references

Genesis 42:2

“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 42:2 BSB

Genesis 42:2 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 43:8 (5 votes) and Genesis 43:2 (2 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Genesis 41 to Acts 7.

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Which verses does Genesis 42:2 point to?

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  1. And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

  2. So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

  3. If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

  4. Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

  5. I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.

  6. In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

  7. But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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