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

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

³And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. Copy Many Bible Versions

⁴But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

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

⁸And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. Copy Many Bible Versions

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

¹⁰And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. Copy Many Bible Versions

¹¹We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

¹⁴And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

¹⁷And he put them all together into ward three days. Copy Many Bible Versions

¹⁸And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

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

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

²³And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

³¹And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: Copy Many Bible Versions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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