⁴ But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for he feared harm would come to him.^{[a] 5} Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan. ⁶ Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.