Genesis 42:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:2 : 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
  • Luke 24:16 : 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
  • John 20:14 : 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.
  • John 21:4 : 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 42:6-7
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    6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

    7 Joseph 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."

  • Gen 42:23
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    23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Gen 42:9-10
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    9 Joseph 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."

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

  • Gen 44:14-15
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    14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

    15 Joseph 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 45:3-4
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    3 Joseph 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.

    4 Joseph 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 42:12-14
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    12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

    13 They 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."

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

  • Gen 45:1
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    1 Then 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.

  • Acts 7:13
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    13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

  • Gen 37:17-18
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    17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

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

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

  • Gen 37:4-5
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    4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

    5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

  • Gen 48:8
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    8 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

  • Gen 42:3
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    3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 37:11-12
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    11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

    12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 50:17-18
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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.

    18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Acts 7:18
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    18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

  • Gen 45:15
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    15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

  • Gen 46:31
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    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • Gen 42:28-29
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    28 He 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?"

    29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  • Gen 37:27
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    27 Come, 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.