Cross References

Genesis 42:23

New English Translation

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

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Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”