1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

stylus

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

2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

stylus

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

3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

stylus

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

4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

stylus

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

5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

stylus

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

6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

stylus

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

7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

stylus

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

8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

stylus

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

9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

stylus

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

10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

stylus

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

11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

stylus

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

12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."

stylus

13They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

stylus

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

14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'

stylus

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

15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

stylus

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

16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

stylus

Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11

17He put them all together into custody for three days.

stylus

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

18Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

stylus

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

19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

stylus

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

20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

stylus

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

21They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

stylus

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

22Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'Do not sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

stylus

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

23They did not know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

stylus

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

24He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

stylus

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

25Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

stylus

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

26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

stylus

27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

stylus

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

28He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

stylus

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

29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

stylus

30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

stylus

Genesis 42:7, Genesis 42:7

31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

stylus

Genesis 42:11, Genesis 42:11

32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

stylus

33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

stylus

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

34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

stylus

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

35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

stylus

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

36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

stylus

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

37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I do not bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

stylus

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

38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

stylus

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