Genesis 42
GEN 42:1 And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his
sons, `Why do you look at each other?'
GEN 42:2 he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down
thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'
GEN 42:3 and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
GEN 42:4 and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren,
for he said, `Lest mischief meet him.'
GEN 42:5 And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for
the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,
GEN 42:6 and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the
people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him -- face
to the earth.
GEN 42:7 And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself
strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them,
`From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan -- to buy
food.'
GEN 42:8 And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,
GEN 42:9 and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith
unto them, `Ye `are' spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'
GEN 42:10 And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy
food;
GEN 42:11 we `are' all of us sons of one man, we `are' right men; thy servants
have not been spies;'
GEN 42:12 and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have
come to see;'
GEN 42:13 and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of
one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father
to-day, and the one is not.'
GEN 42:14 And Joseph saith unto them, `This `is' that which I have spoken unto
you, saying, Ye `are' spies,
GEN 42:15 by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this --
except by your young brother coming hither;
GEN 42:16 send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye
bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not --
Pharaoh liveth! surely ye `are' spies;'
GEN 42:17 and he removeth them unto charge three days.
GEN 42:18 And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I
fear!
GEN 42:19 if ye `are' right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house
of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn `for' the famine of your houses,
GEN 42:20 and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are
established, and ye die not;' and they do so.
GEN 42:21 And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our
brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication
unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'
GEN 42:22 And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin
not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is
required.'
GEN 42:23 And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter
`is' between them;
GEN 42:24 and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto
them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him
before their eyes.
GEN 42:25 And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels `with' corn, also
to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for
the way; and one doth to them so.
GEN 42:26 And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence,
GEN 42:27 and the one openeth his sack to give provender to his ass at a
lodging-place, and he seeth his money, and lo, it `is' in the mouth of his bag,
GEN 42:28 and he saith unto his brethren, `My money hath been put back, and
also, lo, in my bag:' and their heart goeth out, and they tremble, one to
another saying, `What `is' this God hath done to us!'
GEN 42:29 And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and
they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying,
GEN 42:30 `The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and
maketh us as spies of the land;
GEN 42:31 and we say unto him, We `are' right men, we have not been spies,
GEN 42:32 we `are' twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the
young one `is' to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
GEN 42:33 `And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that
ye `are' right men -- one of your brethren leave with me, and `for' the famine
of your houses take ye and go,
GEN 42:34 and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye `are' not
spies, but ye `are' right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the
land.'
GEN 42:35 And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the
bundle of each man's silver `is' in his sack, and they see their bundles of
silver, they and their father, and are afraid;
GEN 42:36 and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph
is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all
these.'
GEN 42:37 And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, `My two sons thou dost
put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I -- I
bring him back unto thee;'
GEN 42:38 and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother `is'
dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which
ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'
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