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 43
Tanakh 34 verses
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And the famine was sore in the land.
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And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of , that their father said unto them: ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’
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- 3 And spoke unto him, saying: ‘The man did earnestly forewarn us, saying: Ye shall not see my , except your brother be with you.
- 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;
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but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down, for the man said unto us: Ye shall not see my , except your brother be with you.’
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- 6 And said: ‘Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?’
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And they said: ‘The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying: Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words; could we in any wise that he would say: Bring your brother down?’
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- 8 And said unto his father: ‘Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
- 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever.
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For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.’
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And their father said unto them: ‘If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;
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Genesis 37:25 Jeremiah 8:22 Proverbs 18:16 Ezekiel 27:17 1 Kings 10:25 Psalm 76:11 Acts 21:14 Leviticus 20:24 1 Kings 4:21 1 Kings 10:15 Genesis 33:10 1 Samuel 9:7 Proverbs 17:18 Genesis 32:13-21 2 Kings 8:8 1 Samuel 25:27 Proverbs 19:6 Proverbs 21:14 Genesis 43:14 Song of Solomon 4:14 Psalm 68:29 2 Kings 20:12 Deuteronomy 33:14 Esther 4:16 Psalm 72:10 Song of Solomon 4:10 1 Kings 15:19 2 Kings 16:8 Ezekiel 27:15 Song of Solomon 8:14 - 12 and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry back in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight;
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take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man;
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and Almighty give you before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and . And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.’
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Esther 4:16 Genesis 17:1 Psalm 119:41 Psalm 100:5 Nehemiah 1:11 Acts 21:14 Proverbs 16:7 Genesis 39:21 Genesis 42:24 Proverbs 21:1 Genesis 22:14 Genesis 28:3 Luke 1:50 Acts 7:10 Genesis 42:36 2 John 1:3 Psalm 85:7 1 Timothy 1:2 Isaiah 49:13 1 Timothy 1:16 Titus 1:4 Genesis 35:11 Ezra 7:27 Proverbs 1:1 Genesis 32:11-28 Psalm 37:5-7 - 15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and ; and rose up, and went down to , and stood before .
- 16 And when saw with them, he said to the steward of his house: ‘Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the men shall dine with me at noon.’
- 17 And the man did as bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.
- 18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said: ‘Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.’
- 19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke unto him at the door of the house,
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and said: ‘Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.
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And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand.
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- 22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We not who put our money in our sacks.’
- 23 And he said: ‘Peace be to you, not; your , and the of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money.’ And he brought out unto them.
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And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
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And they made ready the present against Joseph’s coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there.
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And when came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down to him to the earth.
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- 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said: ‘Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?’
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And they said: ‘Thy our father is well, he is yet alive.’ And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.
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- 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother, his mother’s son, and said: ‘Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?’ And he said: ‘ be gracious unto thee, my son.’
- 30 And made haste; for his yearned toward his brother; and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
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And he washed his , and came out; and he refrained himself, and said: ‘Set on bread.’
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And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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- 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one with another.
- 34 And portions were taken unto them from before him; but Benjamin’s portion was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.