Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
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Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
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Genesis 42:7
Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Genesis 42:10
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42:11
We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Genesis 42:12
He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
Genesis 42:13
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42:14
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
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Genesis 42:15
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
Genesis 42:17
He put them all together into custody for three days.
Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
Genesis 42:33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
Genesis 42:31
We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
Genesis 43:3
Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 44:23
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
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Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
Genesis 42:2
He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
Genesis 43:2
When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
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