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Genesis Chapter 42

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Genesis 42

1Then Iaakob saw that there was foode in Egypt, and Iaakob said vnto his sonnes, Why gaze ye one vpon an other?
Acts 7:12, Acts 7:12, Joshua 7:10, Joshua 7:10, Exodus 5:19
2And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, and bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.
Genesis 43:8, Genesis 43:8, Matthew 4:4, Genesis 45:9, Genesis 43:4
3So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.
Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:5, Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:5
4But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.
Genesis 42:38, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 44:27, Genesis 44:34
5And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
Acts 7:11, Genesis 12:10, Genesis 41:57, Acts 7:11, Genesis 12:10
6Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, and bowed their face to the groud before him.
Genesis 18:2, Genesis 37:7, Genesis 37:10, Genesis 45:26, Genesis 44:14
7And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.
Genesis 42:30, Genesis 42:30, Matthew 15:23, Matthew 15:26, Genesis 42:14
8(Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.
John 20:14, Luke 24:16, John 21:4, Genesis 37:2, John 20:14
9And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.
Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Exodus 32:35
10But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.
Genesis 37:8, Genesis 37:8, 1 Samuel 26:17, Genesis 44:9, Genesis 27:37
11Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.
Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:33, Genesis 42:34, 2 Corinthians 6:4
12But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.
13And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Genesis 37:30, Genesis 37:30, Genesis 44:20, Genesis 42:32, Genesis 44:20
14Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.
Job 13:24, Job 19:11, Matthew 15:21, Matthew 15:28, Genesis 42:9
15Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.
1 Samuel 17:55, 1 Samuel 17:55, Genesis 42:16, 1 Samuel 1:26, Genesis 42:12
16Send one of you which may fet your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.
Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11
17So he put them in warde three dayes.
Genesis 40:4, Genesis 40:4, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 41:10
18Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.
Leviticus 25:43, Leviticus 25:43, Nehemiah 5:15, Nehemiah 5:15, Genesis 20:11
19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:
Genesis 42:26, Genesis 40:3, Jeremiah 37:15, Genesis 41:56, Isaiah 42:22
20But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.
Genesis 44:23, Genesis 43:5, Genesis 42:34, Genesis 44:23, Genesis 43:5
21And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.
Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Job 36:8, Job 36:9, Genesis 37:23
22And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.
2 Chronicles 24:22, 1 Kings 2:32, Psalms 9:12, 2 Chronicles 24:22, 1 Kings 2:32
23(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)
John 16:13, John 16:14, 2 Corinthians 5:20, John 16:13, John 16:14
24Then he turned from them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke Simeon from among them, and bounde him before their eyes.
Genesis 43:30, Genesis 43:30, Isaiah 63:9, Genesis 45:14, Genesis 45:15
25So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.
1 Peter 3:9, 1 Peter 3:9, Genesis 45:21, Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:17
26And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.
27And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.
Exodus 4:24, Exodus 4:24, Luke 2:7, Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:22
28Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke. And their heart fayled them, and they were astonished, and sayde one to another, What is this, that God hath done vnto vs?
Psalms 61:2, Lamentations 2:17, Genesis 42:36, Lamentations 3:37, Luke 21:26
29And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,
30The man, who is Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
Genesis 42:7, Genesis 42:7
31And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.
Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11
32We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shall I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,
Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 42:19, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 42:15
34And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.
Genesis 34:10, Genesis 34:10, Genesis 34:21, Genesis 34:21, 1 Kings 10:15
35And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.
Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:15, Genesis 43:12, Genesis 42:27
36Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things are against me.
Genesis 43:14, Genesis 43:14, Ecclesiastes 7:8, Isaiah 27:9, Isaiah 41:13
37Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.
Micah 6:7, Genesis 46:9, Micah 6:7, Genesis 46:9, Genesis 43:9
38But he said, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.
Genesis 37:35, Genesis 37:35, Genesis 42:4, Genesis 37:33, Genesis 42:4

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