Genesis 42 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And when Yaʽ

² And he said, “See, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and buy for us there, and let us live and not die.”

³ And Yosĕ

⁴ But Yaʽ

⁵ And the sons of Yisra’ĕ

⁶ And Yosĕ

⁷ And Yosĕ

⁸ So Yosĕ

⁹ And Yosĕ

¹⁰ And they said to him, “No, my master, but your servants have come to buy food.

¹¹ “We are all one man’s sons, we are trustworthy, your servants are not spies.”

¹² But he said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

¹³ And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kenaʽ

¹⁴ And Yosĕ

¹⁵ “By this you shall be proven: By the life of Pharaoh, you do not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

¹⁶ “Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies!”

¹⁷ And he put them all together in prison for three days.

¹⁸ Now Yosĕ

¹⁹ “If you are trustworthy, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, and you, go, bring grain for the scarcity of food of your houses.

²⁰ “And bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, and you do not die.” And so they did.

²¹ And they said to each other, “Truly, we are guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the distress of his life when he pleaded with us, yet we did not listen, that is why this distress has come upon us.”

²² And Re’uḇ

²³ And they did not know that Yosĕ

²⁴ And he turned himself away from them and wept, but came back to them and spoke to them. And he took Shimʽ

²⁵ And Yosĕ

²⁶ So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and went from there.

²⁷ And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his silver, for there it was in the mouth of his sack!

²⁸ And he said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned, and there it is, in my sack!” And their hearts sank and they were afraid, saying to each other, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?”

²⁹ So they came to Yaʽ

³⁰ “The man, the master of the land, spoke to us harshly, and took us for spies of the land.

³¹ “But we said to him, ‘We are trustworthy, we are not spies.

³² ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Kenaʽ

³³ “And the man, the master of the land, said to us, ‘By this I know that you are trustworthy: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the scarcity of food of your households, and go.

³⁴ ‘And bring your youngest brother to me, then I know that you are not spies, but that you are trustworthy – I give your brother to you, and you move about in the land.’ ”

³⁵ And it came to be as they emptied their sacks, that look, the bundle of each man’s silver was in his sack! And when they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were afraid.

³⁶ And Yaʽ

³⁷ So Re’uḇ

³⁸ But he said, “My son is not going down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any harm should come to him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my grey hair with sorrow to the grave.”