Verse 17
Genesis 42:17
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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So he put them in prison three days.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֶּאֱסֹ֥ף אֹתָ֛/ם אֶל מִשְׁמָ֖ר שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים
English Translation
And he gathered them to guard for three days.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 42 Context
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And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
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I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and...
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So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
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Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm i...
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And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land...
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And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And...
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And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? T...
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And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
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And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are c...
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But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
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We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any e...
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And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
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But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the...
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He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
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I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until yo...
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Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether...
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So he put them in prison three days.
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And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: fo...
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If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry...
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And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. T...
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And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against ou...
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And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hea...
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And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
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And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning he spoke to them.
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And taking Simeon, and binking him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks...
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But they having loaded their asses with the corn, went their way.
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And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack'...
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And said to his brethren: My money is given me again, hehold it is in the sack. And thye were astoni...
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And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had be...
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The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
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And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.
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We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the...
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And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with m...
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And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this m...
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When they had told this, they poured out their corn and every man found his money tied in the mouth...
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Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is ke...
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And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him unto my hand,...
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But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mi...
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