Genesis 42:2-4

Expanded Bible

² I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die.”

³ So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. ⁴ But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with them, because he was afraid that ·something terrible [a fatal accident; harm; tragedy] might happen to him.