Genesis 42:12
And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.
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- Gen 42:7-115 verses85%
7And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.
8Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.
9Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.
10And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.
11We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.
- Gen 42:13-164 verses83%
13Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.
14And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;
15But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.
16Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.
- Gen 42:29-357 verses80%
29So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,
30The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.
31And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil designs;
32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.
33And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
34And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.
35And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.
- Gen 44:7-82 verses74%
7And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
8See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?
- Gen 44:23-242 verses74%
23But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.
24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.
- Gen 43:6-72 verses73%
6And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?
7Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.
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22And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.
- Gen 42:1-33 verses72%
1Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?
2And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
3So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
- Gen 42:19-213 verses72%
19If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
20And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.
21And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.
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5And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
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32And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.
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21And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.
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31And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
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26And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.
- Gen 43:2-32 verses71%
2And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.
3If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:
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4And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.
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15And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?
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18And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;
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24And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.
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19Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.
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12Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.