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Genesis 42:23

New International Version

They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.

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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

“You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you.

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.