Genesis 42

¹Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 7:12Josh 7:101 Kgs 19:32 Kgs 8:3-4Exod 20:18Exod 5:19Ezra 10:4Gal 2:7Gen 41:54Gen 41:57

²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:8Gen 43:2Gen 43:4Gen 45:9Isa 38:1Matt 4:4Ps 118:17

³And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:13Gen 42:5

⁴But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:38Gen 11:4Gen 3:22Gen 33:1-2Gen 35:16-19Gen 43:14Gen 43:29Gen 44:20-22Gen 44:27-34

⁵And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 7:11Gen 12:10Gen 41:57Gen 26:1Acts 11:28

⁶And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 7:10Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Gen 37:7-10Gen 41:40-41Gen 41:55-56Gen 44:14Gen 45:26Gen 45:8Rev 3:9

⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:30Gen 42:14-17Gen 42:19-20Gen 42:9-12Matt 15:23-26

⁸And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 37:2John 20:14John 21:4Luke 24:16

⁹And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 32:35Gen 37:5-91 Sam 26:4Gen 42:16Gen 42:30-31Gen 42:34Heb 11:31Josh 2:1Josh 6:23Judg 1:24

¹⁰And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 37:81 Kgs 18:71 Sam 26:17Gen 27:29Gen 27:37Gen 44:9

¹¹We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 6:4Gen 42:19Gen 42:33-34John 7:18

¹²And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹³And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 37:30Gen 42:32Gen 44:20Gen 43:71 Chr 2:1-8Exod 1:2-5Gen 29:32-35Gen 30:6-24Gen 35:16-26Gen 42:11

¹⁴And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:9-11Job 13:24Job 19:11Matt 15:21-28

¹⁵Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:551 Sam 1:261 Sam 20:3Deut 6:13Gen 42:12Gen 42:16Gen 42:20Gen 42:30Gen 42:34Gen 42:7

¹⁶Send 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:11

¹⁷And he put them all together into ward three days. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 40:4Gen 40:7Heb 12:10Acts 4:3Acts 5:18Gen 41:10Isa 24:22Lev 24:12Ps 119:65

¹⁸And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 25:43Neh 5:15Gen 20:11Luke 18:2Luke 18:4Neh 5:9

¹⁹If 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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 40:3Gen 41:56Gen 42:1-2Gen 42:26Gen 43:1-2Gen 45:23Isa 42:22Isa 42:7Jer 37:15

²⁰But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:34Gen 43:5Gen 44:23Gen 42:15Gen 42:26Gen 43:19Gen 6:22John 2:5

²¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 5:15Gen 37:23-28Job 36:8-9Mark 9:43-451 John 1:91 Kgs 17:182 Sam 12:13Acts 19:18Gen 41:9Jas 2:13

²²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 2:322 Chr 24:22Ps 9:12Gen 37:21-22Gen 9:5-6Luke 11:50-51Acts 28:4Ezek 3:18Gen 37:29-30Gen 4:10

²³And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 5:20John 16:13-14

²⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:301 Cor 12:26Gen 34:25Gen 43:14Gen 43:23Gen 45:14-15Gen 49:5-7Heb 4:15Isa 63:9Jude 1:22-23

²⁵Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 3:9Gen 44:1-2Gen 45:21Isa 55:1Matt 5:44Matt 6:33Rom 12:17-21

²⁶And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 4:24Gen 43:21-22Gen 44:11Luke 10:34Luke 2:7

²⁸And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 45:7Lam 3:371 Kgs 10:5Deut 28:65Gen 27:33Gen 42:36Gen 43:23Lam 2:17Lev 26:36Ps 61:2

²⁹And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³⁰The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:7

³¹And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:11

³²We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³³And 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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:19-20Gen 42:15

³⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 34:10Gen 34:211 Kgs 10:15Ezek 17:4

³⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:21Gen 42:27-28Gen 43:12Gen 43:15

³⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:14Rom 8:311 Sam 27:1Eccl 7:8Isa 27:9Isa 38:10Isa 41:10Isa 41:13-14Job 7:7Matt 14:31

³⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 46:9Mic 6:7Gen 43:9Gen 44:32-34

³⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 37:35Gen 37:33Gen 42:4Gen 42:13Gen 35:16-181 Kgs 2:6Eccl 1:14Eccl 2:26Gen 30:22-24Gen 44:20