Genesis 42:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When Ioseph sawe his brethren, he knewe them, and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, & spake roughly vnto them, saying: Whence come ye? They aunswered, out of the lande of Chanaan to bye vitayle.

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  • Gen 42:30 : 30 The man, euen the Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and toke vs for spyes of the countrey.
  • Matt 15:23-26 : 23 But he aunswered her not a worde: and his disciples came, and besought hym, saying: sende her away, for she cryeth after vs. 24 But he aunswered, and sayde: I am not sent but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she, and worshipped him, saying: Lorde, helpe me. 26 He aunswered, and sayde: it is not meete to take the chyldrens bread, and to cast it to litle dogges.
  • Gen 42:9-9 : 9 And Ioseph remembred his dreames whiche he dreamed of them, and sayde vnto them: ye are spyes, and to see where the lande is weake, is your commyng. 10 And they sayde vnto hym: nay my Lord, but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come. 11 We are all one mans sonnes, and meane truely, and thy seruauntes are no spyes. 12 And he sayde vnto them agayne: nay but euen to see where the lande is weake, is your comming.
  • Gen 42:14-17 : 14 And Ioseph saide vnto them: that is it that I spake vnto you when I sayd, ye are spyes. 15 Hereby ye shalbe proued: by the lyfe of Pharao, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Sende out one of you, whiche may fet your brother, and ye shalbe kept in pryson, that your wordes may be proued whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao, ye are but spyes. 17 And he put them altogether in warde three dayes.
  • Gen 42:19-20 : 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bonde in the house of your pryson: and go ye, carry corne to put away the famine from your housholde. 20 But bryng your youngest brother vnto me, and so shal your wordes be tryed true, and ye shall not dye: & they dyd so.

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  • Gen 42:8-10
    3 verses
    88%

    8 And Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knewe not him.

    9 And Ioseph remembred his dreames whiche he dreamed of them, and sayde vnto them: ye are spyes, and to see where the lande is weake, is your commyng.

    10 And they sayde vnto hym: nay my Lord, but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5 And the sonnes of Irael came to bye corne among other that came: for there was dearth in the lande of Chanaan.

    6 And Ioseph was gouernour in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And Iosephes brethren came and bowed them selues with theyr faces downe to the grounde before him.

  • Gen 45:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren: I am Ioseph, doth my father yet lyue? And his brethren could not aunswere him, they were so abashed at his presence.

    4 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren, come neare to me I pray you. And they came neare. And he said, I am Ioseph your brother who ye solde into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1 And Iacob seing that there was corne in Egypt, sayde vnto his sonnes: why gape ye one vpon another?

    2 And he said: behold, I haue hearde that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thyther, and bye vs corne from thence, that we may liue, and not dye.

    3 So went Iosephes ten brethren downe to bye corne in Egypt.

  • Gen 42:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 And he sayde vnto them agayne: nay but euen to see where the lande is weake, is your comming.

    13 And they said: we thy seruauntes are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Chanaan, and beholde, the youngest is this day with our father, & one, no man woteth where he is.

    14 And Ioseph saide vnto them: that is it that I spake vnto you when I sayd, ye are spyes.

  • 23 They were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.

  • Gen 37:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16 He aunswered: I seke my brethren, tell me I praye thee where they kepe cattell

    17 And the man sayde, They are departed hence: for I haue hearde them say, let vs go vnto Dothan. Thus went Ioseph after his brethren, and founde them in Dothan.

    18 And when they sawe hym a farre of, before he came at them, they toke councell agaynst hym for to slea hym.

  • 31 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house: I wyll go vp, and shewe Pharao, and tell him: my brethren, and my fathers house, whiche were in the lande of Chanaan, are come vnto me.

  • Gen 43:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 And Israel sayd: wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet a brother?

    7 They aunswered, The man asked vs straytely of our state and of our kinrede, saying: Is your father yet aliue? haue ye not another brother? And we tolde hym accordyng to the tenour of these wordes: Could we by any meane knowe, that he would say, bryng your brother downe with you?

  • 1 Ioseph came therfore & tolde Pharao, and said: My father & my brethre, theyr sheepe, and theyr cattell, and all that they haue, are come out of ye lande of Chanaan: and beholde, they are in the lande of Gosen.

  • Gen 44:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 And Iuda and his brethren came to Iosephes house (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground.

    15 And Ioseph sayde vnto them: what deede is this that ye haue done? Wote ye not that suche a man as I do consult with propheciers?

  • 13 And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephes kinrede was made knowen vnto Pharao.

  • 29 And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the lande of Chanaan, & tolde him all that befell vnto them, saying:

  • 17 And Pharao spake vnto Ioseph: say vnto thy brethren, this do ye: lade your beastes, and go and returne vnto the lande of Chanaan:

  • 2 And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne and bye vs a litle foode.

  • 1 Ioseph coulde no longer refrayne before all the that stoode by hym, wherefore he cryed: cause euery man to auoyde. And there remayned no man with him, whyle Ioseph vttered hym selfe vnto his brethren.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    76%

    33 And the Lorde of the countrey sayde agayne vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye meane truely: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode to put away the famine fro your householdes, and get you away.

    34 And bring your youngest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that you are no spyes, but meane truely: so wyll I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall occupie in the lande.

  • 5 And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father & thy brethre are come vnto thee.

  • 20 And sayde: oh sir, we came downe hyther at the fyrst tyme to bye foode.

  • 27 Come on, and let vs sell hym to the Ismaelites, and let not our hande be vpon him: for he is our brother and our fleshe. And his brethren were content.

  • 12 His brethren also went to kepe his fathers cattell in Sichem.