GE-42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob
said unto his
sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
GE-42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in
Egypt: get
you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live,
and not die.
GE-42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in
Egypt.
GE-42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for
he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
GE-42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those
that came: for
the famine was in the land of Canaan.
GE-42:6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he
[it was] that
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came,
and bowed down
themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.
GE-42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself
strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence
come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
GE-42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
GE-42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of
them, and said
unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye
are come.
GE-42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food
are thy
servants come.
GE-42:11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy
servants are
no spies.
GE-42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness
of the land ye
are come.
GE-42:13 And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the
sons of one
man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest [is] this
day with our
father, and one [is] not.
GE-42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake
unto you,
saying, Ye [are] spies:
GE-42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye
shall not go
forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
GE-42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and
ye shall be
kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be
any] truth in
you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.
GE-42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
GE-42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and
live; [for] I
fear God:
GE-42:19 If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be
bound in the
house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses:
GE-42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your
words be
verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
GE-42:21 And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty
concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he
besought us, and we
would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
GE-42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do
not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his
blood is required.
GE-42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them]; for
he spake unto
them by an interpreter.
GE-42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and
returned to
them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon,
and bound him
before their eyes.
GE-42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn,
and to restore
every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
the way: and
thus did he unto them.
GE-42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed
thence.
GE-42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the
inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack's
mouth.
GE-42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored;
and, lo, [it
is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they
were afraid,
saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto
us?
GE-42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of
Canaan, and
told him all that befell unto them; saying,
GE-42:30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly
to us, and
took us for spies of the country.
GE-42:31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men]; we are no
spies:
GE-42:32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is]
not, and the
youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
GE-42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us,
Hereby shall I
know that ye [are] true [men]; leave one of your brethren [here]
with me, and
take [food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:
GE-42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I
know that ye
[are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I
deliver you your
brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
GE-42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,
behold, every
man's bundle of money [was] in his sack: and when [both] they
and their father
saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
GE-42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye
bereaved [of my
children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will
take Benjamin
[away]: all these things are against me.
GE-42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two
sons, if I
bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will
bring him to thee
again.
GE-42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for
his brother is
dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in
the which ye
go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
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