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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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" /><title>Genesis 42 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/42.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he put them all together in custody for three days.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He said to his brothers, “My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!” At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>As they emptied their sacks, 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="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then Reuben said to his father, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/42-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. 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