Genesis 42:16

World English Bible (2000)

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

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  • Gen 42:11 : 11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

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  • Gen 42:9-15
    7 verses
    90%

    9Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

    10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

    11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

    12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

    13They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

    14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

    15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

  • Gen 42:17-21
    5 verses
    84%

    17He put them all together into custody for three days.

    18Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

    19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

    20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

    21They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

  • Gen 42:31-35
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    83%

    31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

    33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

    34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

    35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

  • Gen 43:3-7
    5 verses
    74%

    3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

    4If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,

    5but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

    6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

    7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

  • Gen 44:23
    74%

    23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

  • Gen 40:3
    71%

    3He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 45:12-13
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    71%

    12Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

    13You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."

  • Gen 44:21
    70%

    21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

  • Gen 45:4
    70%

    4Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 44:1
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    1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in his sack's mouth.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

    3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Gen 43:13
    70%

    13Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.