Verse 20
Genesis 43:20
Geneva Bible
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And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִ֑/י יָרֹ֥ד יָרַ֛דְנוּ בַּ/תְּחִלָּ֖ה לִ/שְׁבָּר אֹֽכֶל
English Translation
And they said, "My lord, we will go down at first to buy food."
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Chapter 43 Context
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Now great famine was in the land.
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And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto th...
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And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except you...
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If thou wilt sende our brother with vs, we will goe downe, and bye thee foode:
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But if thou wilt not send him, we wil not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke me not in the fa...
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And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brothe...
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And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father ye...
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Then sayde Iudah to Israel his father, Send the boy with mee, that we may rise and goe, and that we...
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I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee, and set h...
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For except we had made this tarying, doutlesse by this we had returned the second time.
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Then their father Israel sayd vnto them, If it must needes be so now, do thus: take of the best frui...
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And take double money in your hande, and the money, that was brought againe in your sackes mouthes:...
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Take also your brother and arise, and go againe to the man.
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And God (Elohim) almightie giue you mercie in the sight of the man, that hee may deliuer you your ot...
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Thus the men tooke this present, and tooke twise so much money in their hande with Beniamin, and ros...
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And whe Ioseph saw Beniamin with them, he sayde to his stewarde, Bring these men home and kill meate...
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And the man did as Ioseph bad, and brought the men vnto Iosephs house.
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Nowe when the men were brought into Iosephs house, they were afrayd, and sayd, Because of the money,...
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Therefore came they to Iosephs stewarde, and communed with him at the doore of ye house.
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And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,
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And as wee came to an ynne and opened our sackes, behold, euery mans money was in his sackes mouth,...
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Also other money haue we brought in our handes to bye foode, but we cannot tell, who put our money i...
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And he said, Peace be vnto you, feare not: your God (Elohim) and the God (Elohim) of your father hat...
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So the man led them into Iosephs house, and gaue them water to wash their feete, and gaue their asse...
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And they made ready their present against Ioseph came at noone, (for they heard say, that they shoul...
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When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which was in their handes, an...
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And he asked them of their prosperitie, and sayd, Is your father the olde man, of whome ye tolde me,...
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Who answered, Thy seruant our father is in good health, he is yet aliue: and they bowed downe, and m...
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And he lifting vp his eyes, beheld his brother Beniamin his mothers sonne, and sayde, Is this your y...
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And Ioseph made haste (for his affection was inflamed towarde his brother, and sought where to weepe...
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Afterward he washed his face, and came out, and refrained himselfe, and sayd, Set on meate.
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And they prepared for him by himselfe, and for them by themselues, and for the Egyptians, which did...
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So they sate before him: the eldest according vnto his age, and the yongest according vnto his youth...
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And they tooke meases from before him, and sent to them: but Beniamins mease was fiue times so much...
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