# Genesis 42 • --- ### 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 among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. ### 6 And Joseph the governor over the land, he that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him 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 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 all one man's sons; we true 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 twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest this day with our father, and one not. ### 14 And Joseph said unto them, That that I spake unto you, saying, Ye 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 truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye 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; I fear God: ### 19 If ye true 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 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 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 in his sack's mouth. ### 28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, even in my sack: and their heart failed and they were afraid, saying one to another, What this 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, the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. ### 31 And we said unto him, We true we are no spies: ### 32 We twelve brethren, sons of our father; one not, and the youngest 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 true leave one of your brethren with me, and take the famine of your households, and be gone: ### 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye no spies, but ye true 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 in his sack: and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. ### 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved Joseph not, and Simeon not, and ye will take Benjamin 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.