Genesis 42:3

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’ ”

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

The famine was severe in the land.

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.