For he saw that their money had been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he feared to send him.
And the famine increased and became sore in the land of Canaan, and in all lands save in the land of Egypt,
for many of the children of the Egyptians had stored up their seed for food from the time when they saw Joseph gathering seed together and putting it in storehouses and preserving it for the years of famine.
And the people of Egypt fed themselves thereon during the first year of their famine.