1And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

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Acts 7:12, Acts 7:12, Joshua 7:10, Joshua 7:10, Exodus 5:19

2I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

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Genesis 43:8, Genesis 43:8, Matthew 4:4, Genesis 45:9, Genesis 43:4

3So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

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Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:5, Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:5

4Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

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Genesis 42:38, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 44:27, Genesis 44:34

5And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

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Acts 7:11, Genesis 12:10, Genesis 41:57, Acts 7:11, Genesis 12:10

6And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

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Genesis 18:2, Genesis 37:7, Genesis 37:10, Genesis 45:26, Genesis 44:14

7And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

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Genesis 42:30, Genesis 42:30, Matthew 15:23, Matthew 15:26, Genesis 42:14

8And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.

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John 20:14, Luke 24:16, John 21:4, Genesis 37:2, John 20:14

9And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

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Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Exodus 32:35

10But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

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Genesis 37:8, Genesis 37:8, 1 Samuel 26:17, Genesis 44:9, Genesis 27:37

11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

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Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:33, Genesis 42:34, 2 Corinthians 6:4

12And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

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13But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

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Genesis 37:30, Genesis 37:30, Genesis 44:20, Genesis 42:32, Genesis 44:20

14He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.

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Job 13:24, Job 19:11, Matthew 15:21, Matthew 15:28, Genesis 42:9

15I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

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1 Samuel 17:55, 1 Samuel 17:55, Genesis 42:16, 1 Samuel 1:26, Genesis 42:12

16Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

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Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11

17So he put them in prison three days.

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Genesis 40:4, Genesis 40:4, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 41:10

18And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

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Leviticus 25:43, Leviticus 25:43, Nehemiah 5:15, Nehemiah 5:15, Genesis 20:11

19If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

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Genesis 42:26, Genesis 40:3, Jeremiah 37:15, Genesis 41:56, Isaiah 42:22

20And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

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Genesis 44:23, Genesis 43:5, Genesis 42:34, Genesis 44:23, Genesis 43:5

21And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

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Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Job 36:8, Job 36:9, Genesis 37:23

22And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

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2 Chronicles 24:22, 1 Kings 2:32, Psalms 9:12, 2 Chronicles 24:22, 1 Kings 2:32

23And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

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John 16:13, John 16:14, 2 Corinthians 5:20, John 16:13, John 16:14

24And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.

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Genesis 43:30, Genesis 43:30, Isaiah 63:9, Genesis 45:14, Genesis 45:15

25And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

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1 Peter 3:9, 1 Peter 3:9, Genesis 45:21, Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:17

26But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.

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27And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth,

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Exodus 4:24, Exodus 4:24, Luke 2:7, Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:22

28And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?

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Psalms 61:2, Lamentations 2:17, Genesis 42:36, Lamentations 3:37, Luke 21:26

29And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:

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30The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.

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Genesis 42:7, Genesis 42:7

31And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.

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Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11

32We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.

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33And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways,

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Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 42:15

34And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.

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Genesis 34:10, Genesis 34:10, Genesis 34:21, Genesis 34:21, 1 Kings 10:15

35When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,

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Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:15, Genesis 43:12, Genesis 42:27

36Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

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Genesis 43:14, Genesis 43:14, Ecclesiastes 7:8, Isaiah 27:9, Isaiah 41:13

37And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

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Micah 6:7, Genesis 46:9, Micah 6:7, Genesis 46:9, Genesis 43:9

38But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

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Genesis 37:35, Genesis 37:35, Genesis 42:4, Genesis 37:33, Genesis 42:4