• Genesis 42:13

    And they said, 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.

  • Genesis 42:14

    And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

  • Genesis 42:15

    Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

  • Genesis 42:16

    Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

  • Genesis 42:17

    And he put them all together into ward three days.

  • Genesis 42:18

    And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

  • Genesis 42:19

    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:

  • Genesis 42:20

    But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

  • Genesis 42:21

    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.

  • Genesis 42:22

    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.

  • Genesis 42:23

    And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

  • Genesis 42:24

    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.

  • Genesis 42:25

    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.

  • Genesis 42:26

    And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

  • Genesis 42:27

    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 sack's mouth.

  • Genesis 42:28

    And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failedb them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

  • Genesis 42:29

    And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

  • Genesis 42:30

    The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughlyc to us, and took us for spies of the country.

  • Genesis 42:31

    And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

  • Genesis 42:32

    We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

  • Genesis 42:33

    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:

  • Genesis 42:34

    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.

  • Genesis 42:35

    And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

  • Genesis 42:36

    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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