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Genesis 42:1 (show verse)
When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Genesis 42:2 (show verse)
Then he said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die."
Genesis 42:3 (show verse)
And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:4 (show verse)
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.
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Genesis 42:5 (show verse)
Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those [other people] who went [as well], for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:6 (show verse)
Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He [was] the one who sold [food] to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 42:7 (show verse)
And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
Genesis 42:8 (show verse)
And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
Genesis 42:9 (show verse)
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!"
Genesis 42:10 (show verse)
And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42:11 (show verse)
We all are sons of one man. We [are] honest [men]. We, your servants, are not spies."
Genesis 42:12 (show verse)
Then he said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
Genesis 42:13 (show verse)
Then they said, "We, your servants, [are] twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, but behold, the youngest [is] with our father today, and one is no more."
Genesis 42:14 (show verse)
But Joseph said to them, "It [is] what I said to you--you [are] spies.
Genesis 42:15 (show verse)
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16 (show verse)
Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested [to see] if [there is] truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you [are] spies."
Genesis 42:17 (show verse)
Then he gathered them into the prison for three days.
Genesis 42:18 (show verse)
On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God.
Genesis 42:19 (show verse)
If you [are] honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept}, but [the rest of] you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.
Genesis 42:20 (show verse)
You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die." And they did so.
Genesis 42:21 (show verse)
Then each said to his brother, "Surely we [are] guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us."
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Genesis 42:22 (show verse)
Then Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought."
Genesis 42:23 (show verse)
Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter [was] between them.
Genesis 42:24 (show verse)
And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them.
Genesis 42:25 (show verse)
Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.
Genesis 42:26 (show verse)
Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went [away] from there.
Genesis 42:27 (show verse)
And one [of them later] opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money--behold, it [was] in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42:28 (show verse)
And he said to his brothers, "My money was returned and moreover, behold, [it is] in my sack!" Then {their hearts failed them} and each of them trembled [and] said, "What [is] this God has done to us?"
Genesis 42:29 (show verse)
And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything [that] had happened to them, saying,
Genesis 42:30 (show verse)
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as [if we were] spying out the land.
Genesis 42:31 (show verse)
But we said to him, 'We [are] honest; we are not spies.
Genesis 42:32 (show verse)
We [are] twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest [is] with our father now in the land of Canaan.'
Genesis 42:33 (show verse)
Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you [are] honest. Leave one [brother] with me, and take [food for] the famine in your households and go.
Genesis 42:34 (show verse)
And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you [are] not spies but you [are] honest. And I will give your brother [back] to you, and you will trade in the land.'"
Genesis 42:35 (show verse)
And it happened [that when] they emptied their sacks, behold, each one's pouch of money [was] in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed.
Genesis 42:36 (show verse)
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me--Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this [is] against me!
Genesis 42:37 (show verse)
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I myself will return him to you."
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Genesis 42:38 (show verse)
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. [If] harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol."
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