# Genesis 42
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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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.
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And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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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.
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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.
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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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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.
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We all one man's sons; we true thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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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.
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And Joseph said unto them, That that I spake unto you, saying, Ye spies:
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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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.
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; I fear God:
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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:
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But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
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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.
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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.
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And they knew not that Joseph understood for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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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.
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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.
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And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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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.
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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?
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
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The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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And we said unto him, We true we are no spies:
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We twelve brethren, sons of our father; one not, and the youngest this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.