TSK · Genesis 42:1

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see [that] they [were] in evil [case], after it was said, Ye shall not minish [ought] from your bricks of your daily task.

¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.