Genesis Chapter 42

Jacob’s sons sent to Egypt for grain

42:1 Now when Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here
saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here
said to his sons, Why do you look at each other?
42:2 And he said, Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt go down there, and buy for us from there ; that we may live, and not die.
42:3 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s ten bothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
42:4 But
Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here
didn’t send
Benjaminבִּנְיָמִי
Bīnyāmīn Meaning: “Son of (the) right” or “Son of My right hand” was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob’s thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) For more info click here
, Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s brother, with his bothers ; for he said, Unless harm happened to him.
42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
42:6 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
[was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land and Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s bothers came, and bowed
themselves down before him [with] their faces down to the earth.
42:7 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
saw his bothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger toward them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, From where do you come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
42:8 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
recognized his bothers, but they didn’t recognized him.
42:9 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, You [are] spies ; you are come to see the bareness of the land
42:10 And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food are your servants come.
42:11 We [are] all one man’s sons ; we [are] honest [men], your servants are not spies.
42:12 And he said to them, No, you have come in to see the baredness of the land.
42:13 And they said, Your servants [are] twelve bothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, look, the youngest [is] today with our father, and one [is] not.
42:14 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
said to them, That [is it] that I spoke to you, saying, You [are] spies
42:15 By this you shall be tested. As Pharaoh lives you shall not leave here, except your youngest brother come here.

Imprisoned as spies


42:16 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and you shall be bound in prison, and let your words be proved, whether truth [is] with you. if not as the Pharaoh lives surely you [are] spies.
42:17 And he put them all together into custody three days.
42:18 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
said to them the third day, Do [this], and live ; I fear Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here

Joseph’s treatment of his brothers


42:19 If you [are] honest [men], let one of your bothers be bound in the house of your prison go you, bring grain for the famine of your houses
42:20 And bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be confirmed, and you shall not die. And they did so.
42:21 And they said each to his brother, We [are] truly guilty concerning our brother, whom we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t hear. That is why this distress come to us.
42:22 And Reubenרְאוּבֵן
or Reuven Standard Rəʾūven, meaning “behold, a son”. he was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob’s oldest son) For more info click here
answered them, saying, Didn’t  I tell you, saying, Don’t sin against the youth ; and you didn’t hear? And see, also his blood is also required.
42:23 And they didn’t know that Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
understood [them]; because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

Simeon kept for a pledge


42:24 And he turned away from them, and wept ; and returned to them again, and spoke to them. And took from them Simeon, from them and bound him before their eyes.
42:25 Then Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
commanded to fill their sacks with grain, and to return every man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way and thus did he to them.
42:26 And they loaded their asses with the grain, and departed there.
42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give fodder to his ass in the lodging place, he saw his money ; and, saw, it [was] in his sack’s mouth.
42:28 And he said to his bothers, My money is restored ; and, look, [it is] even in my sack and their hearts sank, and they were afraid, saying one to another , What [is] this [that] Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
has done to us?
42:29 And they came to Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here
their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell to them; saying,
42:30 The man, [who is] the ruler of the land, spoke roughly to us, and considered us as spies in the land.
42:31 And we said to him, We [are] honest [men]; we are not spies
42:32 We [are] twelve bothers, sons of our father ; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
42:33 And the man, the ruler of the land, said to us, By this shall I know that you [are] honest; leave one, your bother with me and take and go for the famine of your houses.
42:34 And bring your youngest brother to me then shall I know that you [are] not spies, but [that] you [are] honest. I will give your brother to you, and you shall go through the land.
42:35 And it so happened as they emptied their sacks, that, see, every man’s bundle of money [was] in his sack and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
42:36 And Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here
their father said to them, Me have you bereaved me. Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
[is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and you will take Benjaminבִּנְיָמִי
Bīnyāmīn Meaning: “Son of (the) right” or “Son of My right hand” was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob’s thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) For more info click here
[away] all these things are against me.
42:37 And Reubenרְאוּבֵן
or Reuven Standard Rəʾūven, meaning “behold, a son”. he was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob’s oldest son) For more info click here
spoke to his father, saying, You may kill my two sons, if I do not bring him to you. Give him to my hand, and I will bring him to you again.
42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone if harm should happen to him in the way in the which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

 

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