Genesis 42 KJV
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Egypt
¶ And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph Egypt
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob Joseph Benjamin
And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob Canaan Egypt Canaan
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph Canaan Canaan
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
We [are] all one man’s sons; we [are] true [men], thy servants are no spies. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Canaan Canaan
And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies: 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Pharaoh Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Pharaoh
And he put them all together into ward three days. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God: 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph God
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: 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
¶ 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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Reuben
And they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake unto them by an interpreter. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Simeon
¶ 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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Joseph
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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? 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt God
¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob Canaan Canaan
The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
And we said unto him, We [are] true [men;] we are no spies: 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Canaan Canaan
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: 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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 traffick in the land. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
¶ 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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob Joseph Benjamin Simeon
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Reuben
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. 7 years of famine Joseph's brothers go to Egypt Jacob