Genesis - Chapter 42 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
  • 4. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
  • 5. And the sons of Israel came to buy {cf15I corn} among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  • 6. And Joseph {cf15I was} the governor over the land, {cf15I and} he {cf15I it was} that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him {cf15I with} their faces to the earth.
  • 7. 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.
  • 8. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
  • 9. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye {cf15I are} spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
  • 10. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
  • 11. We {cf15I are} all one man's sons; we {cf15I are} true {cf15I men}, thy servants are no spies.
  • 12. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
  • 13. And they said, Thy servants {cf15I are} twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest {cf15I is} this day with our father, and one {cf15I is} not.
  • 14. And Joseph said unto them, That {cf15I is it} that I spake unto you, saying, Ye {cf15I are} spies:
  • 15. Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
  • 16. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether {cf15I there be any} truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye {cf15I are} spies.
  • 17. And he put them all together into ward three days.
  • 18. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; {cf15I for} I fear God:
  • 19. If ye {cf15I be} true {cf15I men}, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
  • 20. But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
  • 21. And they said one to another, We {cf15I 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.
  • 22. 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.
  • 23. And they knew not that Joseph understood {cf15I them}; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
  • 24. And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
  • 25. Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
  • 26. And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
  • 27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it {cf15I was} in his sack's mouth.
  • 28. And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, {cf15I it is} even in my sack: and their heart failed {cf15I them}, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What {cf15I is} this {cf15I that} God hath done unto us?
  • 29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
  • 30. The man, {cf15I who is} the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
  • 31. And we said unto him, We {cf15I are} true {cf15I men}; we are no spies:
  • 32. We {cf15I be} twelve brethren, sons of our father; one {cf15I is} not, and the youngest {cf15I is} this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
  • 33. And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye {cf15I are} true {cf15I men}; leave one of your brethren {cf15I here} with me, and take {cf15I food for} the famine of your households, and be gone:
  • 34. And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye {cf15I are} no spies, but {cf15I that} ye {cf15I are} true {cf15I men: so} will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
  • 35. And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money {cf15I was} in his sack: and when {cf15I both} they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
  • 36. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved {cf15I of my children}: Joseph {cf15I is} not, and Simeon {cf15I is} not, and ye will take Benjamin {cf15I away}: all these things are against me.
  • 37. 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.
  • 38. 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.
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