And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”
Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen 43:1, Gen 43:2. The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good master of a family, is in care to provide for those of his own house food convenient; and shall not God provide for his children, for the household of faith?
Commenting on Genesis 43:1-10
And Judah spake unto him,.... Reuben the eldest son had met with a repulse already, Gen 42:36; Simeon the next was now in Egypt, Gen 42:24, and Levi, perhaps on account of the affair of Shechem, Gen 34:25, did not yet stand well in his father's favour and affection; wherefore Judah being next, with the consent of his brethren, undertakes to manage the affair with...
Gen 43:1-2 When the corn brought from Egypt was all consumed, as the famine still continued, Jacob called upon his sons to go down and fetch a little corn (little in proportion to their need).
Commenting on Genesis 43:1-2