² And he said, “Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may ^(A)live and not die.”

¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may ^(A)live and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”