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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