Genesis:42
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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 ?
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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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And Josephs ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt .
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But Benjamin ,
Josephs brother ,
Jacob sent not with his brethren ;
for he said ,
Lest peradventure mischief befall him .
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came :
for the famine was in the land of Canaan K @
na #
an #.
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And Joseph was the governor over the land ,
and he it was that sold to all the people of the land :
and Josephs brethren came ,
and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth .
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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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And Joseph knew his brethren ,
but they knew not him .
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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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And they said unto him ,
Nay ,
my lord ,
but to buy food are thy servants come .
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We are all one mans sons ;
we are true men ,
thy servants are no spies .
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And he said unto them ,
Nay ,
but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come .
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And they said ,
Thy servants are twelve sh @
nayim #
brethren ,
the sons of one man in the land of Canaan K @
na #
an #;
and ,
behold ,
the youngest is this day with our father ,
and one is not .
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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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And he put them all together into ward three days .
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And Joseph said unto them the third day ,
This do ,
and live ;
for I fear God :
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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 :
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But bring your youngest brother unto me ;
so shall your words be verified ,
and ye shall not die .
And they did so .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they knew not that Joseph understood them ;
for he spake unto them by an interpreter .
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And he turned himself about from them ,
and wept ;
and returned to them again ,
and communed with them ,
and took from them Simeon Shim #
own #,
and bound him before their eyes .
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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn ,
and to restore every mans money into his sack ,
and to give them provision for the way :
and thus did he unto them .
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And they laded their asses with the corn ,
and departed thence .
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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 sacks mouth .
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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 ?
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan K @
na #
an #,
and told him all that befell unto them ;
saying ,
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The man ,
who is the lord of the land ,
spake roughly to us ,
and took us for spies of the country .
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And we said unto him ,
We are true men ;
we are no spies :
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We be twelve #
H8147brethren ,
sons of our father ;
one is not ,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan K @
na #
an #.
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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 :
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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 .
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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks ,
that ,
behold ,
every mans bundle of money was in his sack :
and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money ,
they were afraid .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 sh @#
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