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Genesis 42:23 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. "
Genesis 42:23
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And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he
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Genesis 42:1
"Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look"
Genesis 42:2
"And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die."
Genesis 42:3
"And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt."
Genesis 42:4
"But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him."
Genesis 42:5
"And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 42:6
"And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth."
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