Verse 16
Genesis 42:16
World English Bible
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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.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
שִׁלְח֨וּ מִ/כֶּ֣ם אֶחָד֮ וְ/יִקַּ֣ח אֶת אֲחִי/כֶם֒ וְ/אַתֶּם֙ הֵאָ֣סְר֔וּ וְ/יִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙ דִּבְרֵי/כֶ֔ם הַֽ/אֱמֶ֖ת אִתְּ/כֶ֑ם וְ/אִם לֹ֕א חֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה כִּ֥י מְרַגְּלִ֖ים אַתֶּֽם
English Translation
Send one of you, and let him take your brother, and you be confined, and let us test your words, whether they are true; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.
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Chapter 42 Context
1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one ano...
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He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from ther...
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3
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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4
But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm...
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5
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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6
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s br...
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7
Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughl...
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8
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
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9
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have...
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10
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
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11
We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
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12
He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
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13
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and b...
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14
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
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15
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your you...
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16
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested...
17
He put them all together into custody for three days.
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18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God (Elohim).
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19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grai...
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20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”
They did so.
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21
They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distre...
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22
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wou...
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23
They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
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24
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Si...
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25
Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his s...
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26
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
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27
As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behol...
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28
He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them,...
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29
They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them,...
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30
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
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31
We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
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32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our fathe...
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33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one o...
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34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest...
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35
As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their...
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36
Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon i...
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37
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to m...
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38
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm h...
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