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buy food.
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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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And Joseph 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
true
men,
thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them,
Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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And they said, Thy servants
are
twelve
brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest
is
this day with our
father, and one
is
not.
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And Joseph said unto them, That
is it
that I spake unto you, saying, Ye
are
spies:
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh 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 kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether
there be any
truth in you: or else by the
life of Pharaoh surely ye
are
spies.
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And
Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;
for
I fear God:
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If ye
be
true
men,
let one
of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses:
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But 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
anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come
upon us.
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And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against
the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
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And they knew
not that Joseph understood
them;
for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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And he turned himself
about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from
them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into
his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
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And they laded their
asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it
was
in his sack’s mouth.
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And he said
unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo,
it is
even in my sack: and their heart failed
them,
and they were afraid, saying one to another, What
is
this
that
God hath done unto us?
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell
unto them; saying,
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The man,
who is
the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for
spies of the country.
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And we said unto him, We
are
true
men;
we are no spies:
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We
be
twelve
brethren, sons of our father; one
is
not, and the youngest
is
this day with our father in the land of
Canaan.
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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye
are
true
men;
leave one of your brethren
here
with me, and take
food for
the famine of your households,
and be gone:
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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye
are
no spies,
but
that
ye
are
true
men: so
will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick 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
both
they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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