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Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "From the land of Canaan," they replied, "to buy food."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see where our land is unprotected."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"No, my lord," they answered. "Your servants have come to buy food.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We are all the sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"No!" he said to them. "You have come to see where our land is unprotected."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But they replied, "Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Joseph said to them, "It is just as I told you: You are spies!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And he put them all in custody for three days.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he put them all together in custody for three days.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">On the third day, Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die." This they proceeded to do.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come on us."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Reuben replied, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn't listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man's silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"My silver has been returned," he said to his brothers. "Here it is in my sack." Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we are not spies.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.'<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, 'This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.'"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Jacob said, "My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/42-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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