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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 42 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/42.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/42.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Genesis 42</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/41.htm" title="Genesis 41">◄</a> Genesis 42 <a href="../genesis/43.htm" title="Genesis 43">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons: ‘Why do ye look one upon another?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: ‘Lest peradventure harm befall him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Caanan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: ‘Whence come ye?’ And they said: ‘From the land of Canaan to buy food.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they said unto him: ‘Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We are all one man’s sons; we are upright men, thy servants are no spies.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he said unto them: ‘Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they said: ‘We 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Joseph said unto them: ‘That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he put them all together into ward three days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Joseph said unto them the third day. ‘This do, and live; for I fear God: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.’ And they did so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they said one to another: ‘We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Reuben answered them, saying: ‘Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for the interpreter was between them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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 turned trembling one to another, saying: ‘What is this that God hath done unto us?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>‘The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>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; upon me are all these things come.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying: ‘Thou shalt slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he said: ‘My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left; if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/43.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 43"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 43" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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