These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 42
Tanakh 38 verses
- 1 Now saw that there was corn in , and said unto his sons: ‘Why do ye look one upon another?’
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And he said: ‘Behold, I have heard that there is corn in . Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.’
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And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn from .
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- 4 But , Joseph’s brother, sent not with his brethren; for he said: ‘Lest peradventure harm befall him.’
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And the sons of came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Caanan.
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- 6 And was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth.
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And saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: ‘Whence come ye?’ And they said: ‘From the land of to buy food.’
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And knew his brethren, but they knew him not.
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- 9 And remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them: ‘Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.’
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And they said unto him: ‘Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We are all one man’s sons; we are upright men, thy servants are no spies.’
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- 12 And he said unto them: ‘Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.’
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And they said: ‘We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.’
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Genesis 37:30 Genesis 42:32 Genesis 44:20 Genesis 43:7 Matthew 2:16 Genesis 45:26 1 Chronicles 2:1-8 Genesis 42:11 Genesis 42:36 Numbers 1:1-54 Lamentations 5:7 Numbers 26:1-65 Numbers 10:1-36 Numbers 34:1-29 Genesis 44:28 Matthew 2:18 Genesis 30:6-24 Genesis 29:32-35 Genesis 35:16-26 Jeremiah 31:15 Exodus 1:2-5 Genesis 42:38 Genesis 46:8-27 -
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And said unto them: ‘That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies.
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- 15 Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.’
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And said unto them the third day. ‘This do, and live; for I :
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if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;
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and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.’ And they did so.
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And they said one to another: ‘We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his , when he besought us, and we would not ; therefore is this distress come upon us.’
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Hosea 5:15 Job 36:8-9 Genesis 37:23-28 Mark 9:48 Matthew 7:2 Jeremiah 2:17 2 Samuel 12:13 Proverbs 21:13 Proverbs 24:11-12 Numbers 32:23 1 John 1:9 Jeremiah 2:19 James 2:13 Luke 16:28 Job 33:27-28 Genesis 41:9 Matthew 27:3-4 Mark 9:43-45 Jeremiah 34:17 Judges 1:7 Proverbs 28:17 Proverbs 1:27-28 Acts 19:18 Jeremiah 4:18 1 Kings 17:18 Job 34:31-32 - 22 And answered them, saying: ‘Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not ? therefore also, behold, his is required.’
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And they knew not that understood them; for the interpreter was between them.
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- 24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
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Then commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them.
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- 26 And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
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- 28 And he said unto his brethren: ‘My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack.’ And their failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying: ‘What is this that hath done unto us?’
- 29 And they came unto their father unto the land of , and told him all that had befallen them, saying:
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The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
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And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies.
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- 32 We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of .
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And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
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And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I that ye are no spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.’
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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
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- 36 And their father said unto them: ‘Me have ye bereaved of my children: is not, and is not, and ye will take away; upon me are all these things come.’
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And spoke unto his father, saying: ‘Thou shalt slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee.’
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- 38 And he said: ‘My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left; if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.