So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Return, buy us a little more food.”

Then put my cup – the silver cup – in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.