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Joseph's Brothers in Egypt
Genesis Chapter 42
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| 42:1 |
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? |
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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. |
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| 42:3 |
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. |
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But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. |
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| 42:5 |
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 42:8 |
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. |
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| 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. |
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| 42:10 |
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. |
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| 42:11 |
We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. |
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| 42:12 |
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. |
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| 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. |
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| 42:14 |
And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: |
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. |
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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. |
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| 42:17 |
And he put them all together into ward three days. |
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