eaten up the corne] That is, when there was very little left, and after a while like to be none, without a new supply. buy us a little food] To serve us in the famine of this present yeare, for Jacob knew not that five yeares famine were yet to come; he had a great family of sons, daughters, grand-children, and servants, which by conjecture might amount to two or three hundred, so that a great deale of corne might be held but a little in respect of so great a company; but by calling it a little he might meane in regard of the spare diet which men were to be tied unto in hard times, so that now they were to spend lesse in provision then when the Lord sent it in a greater proportion.