Genesis 42:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.

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  • Gen 42:30 : 30 The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
  • Matt 15:23-26 : 23 But hee answered her not a worde. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Sende her away, for she crieth after vs. 24 But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel. 25 Yet she came, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me. 26 And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.
  • Gen 42:9-9 : 9 And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land. 10 But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come. 11 Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies. 12 But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.
  • Gen 42:14-17 : 14 Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies. 15 Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither. 16 Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies. 17 So he put them in warde three dayes.
  • Gen 42:19-20 : 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses: 20 But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

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  • Gen 42:8-10
    3 verses
    88%

    8 (Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.

    9 And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

    10 But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5 And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

    6 Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, & bowed their face to the groud before him.

  • Gen 45:3-4
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    3 Then Ioseph sayde to his brethren, I am Ioseph: doeth my father yet liue? But his brethren coulde not answere him, for they were astonished at his presence.

    4 Againe, Ioseph sayde to his brethren, Come neere, I pray you, to mee; they came neere; he sayde, I am Ioseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Then Iaakob saw that there was foode in Egypt, and Iaakob said vnto his sonnes, Why gaze ye one vpon an other?

    2 And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

    3 So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.

  • Gen 42:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

    13 And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

    14 Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

  • 23 (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

  • Gen 37:16-18
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    16 And he answered, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they keepe sheepe.

    17 And the man said, they are departed hece: for I heard them say, Let vs goe vnto Dothan. Then went Ioseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

    18 And when they sawe him a farre off, euen before he came at them, they conspired against him for to slay him.

  • 31 Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me,

  • Gen 43:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?

    7 And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any brother? And wee tolde him according to these wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

  • 1 Then came Ioseph and tolde Pharaoh, and sayde, My father, and my brethren, and their sheepe, and their cattell, and all that they haue, are come out of the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 44:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 So Iudah and his brethren came to Iosephs house (for he was yet there) and they fel before him on the ground.

    15 Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?

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

  • 29 And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

  • 17 Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,

  • 2 And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.

  • 1 Then Ioseph coulde not refraine him selfe before all that stoode by him, but hee cryed, Haue forth euery man from me; there taryed not one with him, while Ioseph vttered himselfe vnto his brethren.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    76%

    33 Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

    34 And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

  • 5 Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

  • 20 And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,

  • 27 Come and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our handes be vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed.

  • 12 Then his brethren went to keepe their fathers sheepe in Shechem.