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Genesis 42:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ "

Genesis 42:14

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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 today with our father, and one is no more.”

14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

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

16 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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Genesis 42:1

"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”"

Genesis 42:2

"He 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.”"

Genesis 42:3

"Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt."

Genesis 42:4

"But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”"

Genesis 42:5

"The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan."

Genesis 42:6

"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."

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