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Genesis 42:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They did not know that Joseph understood them, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.

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Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

He turned away from them and wept; then he returned and spoke to them. And he picked out Simeon and had him bound before their eyes.

And now your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my own mouth that speaks to you.

So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.