Genesis 42:23

World English Bible (2000)

They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

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  • John 16:13-14 : 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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    7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

    8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

    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."

  • Gen 42:24-25
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    24He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

    25Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

  • Gen 42:21-22
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    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."

    22Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

  • 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 42:13-14
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    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!'

  • Gen 40:8
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    8They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

  • Acts 7:25
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    25He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

  • Gen 50:17
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    17'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

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    18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

  • Gen 40:22-23
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    22but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

    23Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.

  • Gen 45:1-4
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    1Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

    2He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

    3Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

    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 43:19
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    19They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

  • Luke 2:50
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    50They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.

  • Gen 42:28-29
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    28He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

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    4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

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    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

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    5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

  • Gen 42:35-36
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    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.

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  • John 8:27
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    27They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

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    32They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

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    27Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

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    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?'"