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Genesis 42:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Reuben 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.” "

Genesis 42:22

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

21 They said to one 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.”

22 Reuben 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.”

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

24 He 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.

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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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