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And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, `Why do you look at each other?' |
| 2. |
he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;' |
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and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt, |
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and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, `Lest mischief meet him.' |
| 5. |
And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan, |
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and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him -- face to the earth. |
| 7. |
And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan -- to buy food.' |
| 8. |
And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him, |
| 9. |
and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye `are' spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.' |
| 10. |
And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food; |
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we `are' all of us sons of one man, we `are' right men; thy servants have not been spies;' |
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and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;' |
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and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father to-day, and the one is not.' |
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And Joseph saith unto them, `This `is' that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye `are' spies, |
| 15. |
by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither; |
| 16. |
send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye `are' spies;' |
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and he removeth them unto charge three days. |
| 18. |
And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear! |
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if ye `are' right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn `for' the famine of your houses, |
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and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so. |
| 21. |
And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.' |
| 22. |
And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.' |
| 23. |
And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter `is' between them; |
| 24. |
and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes. |
| 25. |
And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels `with' corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so. |
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And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence, |
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and the one openeth his sack to give provender to his ass at a lodging-place, and he seeth his money, and lo, it `is' in the mouth of his bag, |
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and he saith unto his brethren, `My money hath been put back, and also, lo, in my bag:' and their heart goeth out, and they tremble, one to another saying, `What `is' this God hath done to us!' |