Verse 1
Genesis 42:1
New King James Version
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֣רְא יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּ/מִצְרָ֑יִם וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ לְ/בָנָ֔י/ו לָ֖/מָּה תִּתְרָאֽוּ
English Translation
And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at each other?"
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Chapter 42 Context
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon a...
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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us...
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And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mis...
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And the sons of Israel came to buy
corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Can...
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And Joseph
was the governor over the land,
and he
it was that sold to all the people of the land: an...
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And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly...
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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye
are spies; to see...
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We
are all one man’s sons; we
are true
men,
thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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And they said, Thy servants
are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, beh...
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And Joseph said unto them, That
is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye
are spies:
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest...
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16
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may...
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;
for
I fear God (Elohim):
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If ye
be true
men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn...
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But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And...
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And they said one to another, We
are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguis...
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And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye...
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And they knew not that Joseph understood
them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them,...
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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack,...
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And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, b...
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And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo,
it is even in my sack: and their heart...
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto the...
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30
The man,
who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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And we said unto him, We
are true
men; we are no spies:
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We
be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one
is
not, and the youngest
is this day with our father...
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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye
are true
men; leave...
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34
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye
are no spies, but
that ye
are tru...
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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money
was in hi...
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And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved
of my children: Joseph
is not, and Simeon...
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37
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him...
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38
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mi...
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