geneva - 42

geneva@Genesis:42:1 @ Now when (note:)This story shows plainly that all things are governed by God's providence for the profit of his Church.(:note) Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye As men destitute of counsel. look one upon another?

geneva@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

geneva@Genesis:42:3 @ So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.

geneva@Genesis:42:4 @ But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.

geneva@Genesis:42:5 @ And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, & bowed their face to the groud before him.

geneva@Genesis:42:7 @ And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but (note:)This concealing is not to be followed, nor any actions of the father's not approved by God's word.(:note) 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.

geneva@Genesis:42:8 @ (Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.

geneva@Genesis:42:9 @ And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

geneva@Genesis:42:10 @ But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

geneva@Genesis:42:11 @ Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.

geneva@Genesis:42:12 @ But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

geneva@Genesis:42:13 @ And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

geneva@Genesis:42:14 @ Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

geneva@Genesis:42:15 @ Hereby ye shall be proved: (note:)The Egyptians who were idolaters, used to swear by their king's life: but God forbids swearing by anyone but him: yet Joseph dwelling among the wicked was corrupted by them.(:note) By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

geneva@Genesis:42:16 @ Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

geneva@Genesis:42:17 @ So he put them in warde three dayes.

geneva@Genesis:42:18 @ And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I (note:)And therefore am true and just.(:note) fear God:

geneva@Genesis:42:19 @ If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

geneva@Genesis:42:20 @ But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

geneva@Genesis:42:21 @ And they said one to another, (note:)Affliction makes men acknowledge their faults, which otherwise they would conceal.(:note) 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.

geneva@Genesis: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 (note:)God will take vengeance on us, and measure us with our own measure.(:note) blood is required.

geneva@Genesis:42:23 @ (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

geneva@Genesis:42:24 @ And he turned himself about from them, and (note:)Though he acts harshly, yet his brotherly affection remained.(:note) wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

geneva@Genesis:42:25 @ So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.

geneva@Genesis:42:26 @ And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

geneva@Genesis:42:27 @ And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.

geneva@Genesis: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 (note:)Because their conscience accused them of their sin, they thought God had brought them trouble through the money.(:note) afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?

geneva@Genesis:42:29 @ And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

geneva@Genesis:42:30 @ The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

geneva@Genesis:42:31 @ And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.

geneva@Genesis:42:32 @ We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:42:33 @ Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

geneva@Genesis:42:34 @ And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

geneva@Genesis:42:35 @ And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.

geneva@Genesis: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 (note:)For they did not seem to be concerned or have any love for their brother which increased his sorrow: and partly as it appears he suspected them for Joseph.(:note) me.

geneva@Genesis:42:37 @ Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.

geneva@Genesis:42:38 @ But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.

Genesis 42