Genesis 42 (NET)

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Genesis 42:1¹When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:12 Josh 7:10 1 Kgs 19:3 2 Kgs 8:3-4 Exod 20:18 Exod 5:19 Ezra 10:4 Gal 2:7 Gen 41:54 Gen 41:57

Genesis 42:2²He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:8 Gen 43:2 Gen 43:4 Gen 45:9 Isa 38:1 Matt 4:4 Ps 118:17

Genesis 42:3³So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:13 Gen 42:5

Genesis 42:4⁴But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “What if some accident happens to him?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:38 Gen 11:4 Gen 3:22 Gen 33:1-2 Gen 35:16-19 Gen 43:14 Gen 43:29 Gen 44:20-22 Gen 44:27-34

Genesis 42:5⁵So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:11 Gen 12:10 Gen 41:57 Gen 26:1 Acts 11:28

Genesis 42:6⁶Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:10 Gen 18:2 Gen 19:1 Gen 37:7-10 Gen 41:40-41 Gen 41:55-56 Gen 44:14 Gen 45:26 Gen 45:8 Rev 3:9

Genesis 42:7⁷When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:30 Gen 42:14-17 Gen 42:19-20 Gen 42:9-12 Matt 15:23-26

Genesis 42:8⁸Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:2 John 20:14 John 21:4 Luke 24:16

Genesis 42:9⁹Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 32:35 Gen 37:5-9 1 Sam 26:4 Gen 42:16 Gen 42:30-31 Gen 42:34 Heb 11:31 Josh 2:1 Josh 6:23 Judg 1:24

Genesis 42:10¹⁰But they exclaimed, “No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy grain for food!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:8 1 Kgs 18:7 1 Sam 26:17 Gen 27:29 Gen 27:37 Gen 44:9

Genesis 42:11¹¹We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:4 Gen 42:19 Gen 42:33-34 John 7:18

Genesis 42:12¹²“No,” he insisted, “but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 42:13¹³They replied, “Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:30 Gen 42:32 Gen 44:20 Gen 43:7 1 Chr 2:1-8 Exod 1:2-5 Gen 29:32-35 Gen 30:6-24 Gen 35:16-26 Gen 42:11

Genesis 42:14¹⁴But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:9-11 Job 13:24 Job 19:11 Matt 15:21-28

Genesis 42:15¹⁵You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:55 1 Sam 1:26 1 Sam 20:3 Deut 6:13 Gen 42:12 Gen 42:16 Gen 42:20 Gen 42:30 Gen 42:34 Gen 42:7

Genesis 42:16¹⁶One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:11

Genesis 42:17¹⁷He imprisoned them all for three days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 40:4 Gen 40:7 Heb 12:10 Acts 4:3 Acts 5:18 Gen 41:10 Isa 24:22 Lev 24:12 Ps 119:65

Genesis 42:18¹⁸On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 25:43 Neh 5:15 Gen 20:11 Luke 18:2 Luke 18:4 Neh 5:9

Genesis 42:19¹⁹If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 40:3 Gen 41:56 Gen 42:1-2 Gen 42:26 Gen 43:1-2 Gen 45:23 Isa 42:22 Isa 42:7 Jer 37:15

Genesis 42:20²⁰But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:34 Gen 43:5 Gen 44:23 Gen 42:15 Gen 42:26 Gen 43:19 Gen 6:22 John 2:5

Genesis 42:21²¹They said to one another, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 5:15 Gen 37:23-28 Job 36:8-9 Mark 9:43-45 1 John 1:9 1 Kgs 17:18 2 Sam 12:13 Acts 19:18 Gen 41:9 Jas 2:13

Genesis 42:22²²Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:32 2 Chr 24:22 Ps 9:12 Gen 37:21-22 Gen 9:5-6 Luke 11:50-51 Acts 28:4 Ezek 3:18 Gen 37:29-30 Gen 4:10

Genesis 42:23²³(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:20 John 16:13-14

Genesis 42:24²⁴He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:30 1 Cor 12:26 Gen 34:25 Gen 43:14 Gen 43:23 Gen 45:14-15 Gen 49:5-7 Heb 4:15 Isa 63:9 Jude 1:22-23

Genesis 42:25²⁵Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:9 Gen 44:1-2 Gen 45:21 Isa 55:1 Matt 5:44 Matt 6:33 Rom 12:17-21

Genesis 42:26²⁶So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 42:27²⁷When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 4:24 Gen 43:21-22 Gen 44:11 Luke 10:34 Luke 2:7

Genesis 42:28²⁸He said to his brothers, “My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; they turned trembling to one another and said, “What in the world has God done to us?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 45:7 Lam 3:37 1 Kgs 10:5 Deut 28:65 Gen 27:33 Gen 42:36 Gen 43:23 Lam 2:17 Lev 26:36 Ps 61:2

Genesis 42:29²⁹They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 42:30³⁰“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:7

Genesis 42:31³¹But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:11

Genesis 42:32³²We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 42:33³³“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:19-20 Gen 42:15

Genesis 42:34³⁴But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 34:10 Gen 34:21 1 Kgs 10:15 Ezek 17:4

Genesis 42:35³⁵When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:21 Gen 42:27-28 Gen 43:12 Gen 43:15

Genesis 42:36³⁶Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:14 Rom 8:31 1 Sam 27:1 Eccl 7:8 Isa 27:9 Isa 38:10 Isa 41:10 Isa 41:13-14 Job 7:7 Matt 14:31

Genesis 42:37³⁷Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 46:9 Mic 6:7 Gen 43:9 Gen 44:32-34

Genesis 42:38³⁸But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:35 Gen 37:33 Gen 42:4 Gen 42:13 Gen 35:16-18 1 Kgs 2:6 Eccl 1:14 Eccl 2:26 Gen 30:22-24 Gen 44:20