Genesis:42

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* Now when Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt , Jacob said unto his sons , Why are ye looking upon one another ? * And he said , Behold , I have heard that there is food in Egypt ; go down there and buy for us from there that we may live , and not die . * And Joseph 's ten brethren went down to buy wheat in Egypt . * But Jacob did not send Benjamin , Joseph 's brother , with his brethren ; for he said , Lest peradventure disaster befall him . * And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came , for the famine was in the land of Canaan . * And Joseph [was ] the lord over the land , [and ] he [it was ] that sold [the wheat ] to all the people of the land ; and Joseph 's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him [with ] their faces to the earth . * And when Joseph saw his brethren , he knew them , but made himself strange unto them and spoke roughly unto them ; and he said unto them , Where have you come from ? And they said , From the land of Canaan to buy food . * And Joseph knew his brethren but they did not know him . * Then 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 . * And they said unto him , No , my lord , but to buy food are thy servants come . * We [are ] all one man 's sons ; we are men of [the ] truth , thy servants have never been spies . * And he said unto them , No , but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come . * 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 . * And Joseph said unto them , That [is it ] that [which ] I spoke unto you , saying , Ye [are ] spies : * Hereby ye shall be proved : By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here . * Send one of you and let him bring your brother , and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved , whether [there is any ] truth in you ; or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are ] spies . * And he put them all together into prison for three days . * And Joseph said unto them the third day , Do this and live , [for ] I fear God . * If ye [are ] men of [the ] truth , let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison ; go ye , carry food for the famine of your houses * but bring your youngest brother unto me , so shall your words be verified , and ye shall not die . And they did so . * And they said one to another , We [are ] truly 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 . * Then Reuben answered them , saying , Did I not speak unto you , saying , Do not sin against the young man , and ye would not hear ? Therefore , behold , his blood is also required . * And they did not know that Joseph understood [them ], for he spoke unto them by an interpreter . * And he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and spoke with them and took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes . * Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with wheat and to restore each man 's money into his sack and to give them provisions for the way ; and thus it was done unto them . * And they laded their asses with the wheat and departed from there . * And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass fodder in the inn , he saw his money ; for , behold , it [was ] in his sack 's mouth . * And he said unto his brethren , My money is restored ; and , behold , [it is ] even in my sack . And their heart failed [them ], and they were afraid , saying one to another , What [is ] this [that ] God has done unto us ? * And they came unto Jacob , their father , unto the land of Canaan and told him all that had befallen them , saying , * The man , [who is ] the lord of the land , spoke roughly to us and took us for spies of the country . * And we said unto him , We [are ] men of [the ] truth ; we have never been spies . * We [are ] twelve brethren , sons of our father ; one [is ] not , and the youngest [is ] this day with our father in the land of Canaan . * And the man , the lord of the country , said unto us , Hereby I shall know that ye [are ] men of [the ] truth ; leave one of your brethren [here ] with me and take [food for ] the famine of your households and go * and bring your youngest brother unto me ; then I shall know that ye [are ] not spies , but [that ] ye [are ] men of [the ] truth ; [thus ] I will deliver you your brother , and ye shall trade in the land . * And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks , that , behold , each man 's bundle of money [was ] in his sack ; and when [both ] they and their father saw the bundles of money , they were afraid . * And Jacob , their father , said unto them , Ye have bereaved me [of my sons ]: Joseph [is ] not , and Simeon [is ] not , and ye will take Benjamin [away ]; all these things are upon me . * And Reuben spoke unto his father , saying , Slay my two sons , if I do not bring him to thee ; deliver him into my hand , and I will bring him to thee again . * And he said , My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead , and he alone is left ; if [some ] disaster should befall him by the way in which ye go , then shall ye bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol .:

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