Genesis 42:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye `are' spies;'

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  • Gen 42:11 : 11 we `are' all of us sons of one man, we `are' right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

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  • Gen 42:9-15
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    9 and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye `are' spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'

    10 And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

    11 we `are' all of us sons of one man, we `are' right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

    12 and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

    13 and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

    14 And Joseph saith unto them, `This `is' that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye `are' spies,

    15 by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither;

  • Gen 42:17-21
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    17 and he removeth them unto charge three days.

    18 And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

    19 if ye `are' right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn `for' the famine of your houses,

    20 and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

    21 And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

  • Gen 42:31-35
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    31 and we say unto him, We `are' right men, we have not been spies,

    32 we `are' twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one `is' to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33 `And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye `are' right men -- one of your brethren leave with me, and `for' the famine of your houses take ye and go,

    34 and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye `are' not spies, but ye `are' right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.'

    35 And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man's silver `is' in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid;

  • Gen 43:3-7
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    3 And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you;

    4 if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,

    5 and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you.'

    6 And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

    7 and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

  • Gen 44:23
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    23 and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

  • Gen 40:3
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    3 and giveth them in charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, unto the round-house, the place where Joseph `is' a prisoner,

  • Gen 45:17
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    17 and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan,

  • Gen 45:12-13
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    12 `And lo, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that `it is' my mouth which is speaking unto you;

    13 and ye have declared to my father all my honour in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye have hasted, and have brought down my father hither.'

  • Gen 44:21
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    21 `And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him;

  • Gen 45:4
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    4 And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, `I `am' Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt;

  • Gen 44:1
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    1 And he commandeth him who `is' over his house, saying, `Fill the bags of the men `with' food, as they are able to bear, and put the money of each in the mouth of his bag;

  • Gen 42:2-3
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    2 he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

    3 and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,

  • Gen 44:15
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    15 and Joseph saith to them, `What `is' this deed that ye have done? have ye not known that a man like me doth diligently observe?'

  • Gen 43:13
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    13 `And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;