# Genesis 42

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/42

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you just look at each other?"
2. He said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, so we may live and not die."
3. Ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4. Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he said, “Lest harm befall him.”
5. Israel's sons came to buy among those arriving, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6. Joseph ruled the land—he sold to all the people there. His brothers came and bowed down before him, faces to the ground.
7. Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but pretended not to know them and spoke harshly with them. He said to them, "From where have you come?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
8. Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
9. Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them and said to them, "You are spies; you came to see the nakedness of the land."
10. They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food."
11. We are all sons of one man; we are honest; your servants were not spies.
12. He said to them, "No, but you came to see the land's nakedness."
13. They answered, "We are twelve brothers, your servants, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and see, the youngest is with our father today, and one is not."
14. Joseph said to them, "It is as I spoke to you, saying, 'You are spies.'"
15. By this you will be tested. As Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and you be bound, that your words may be tested whether truth is in you; if not, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.
17. He brought them into custody for three days.
18. Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and stay alive, for I fear God."
19. If you are upright, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison house, but go and carry grain for the famine in your houses.
20. Bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be believed, and you will not die. And they did so.
21. They said to one another, "Truly we stand guilty because of our brother, for we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us."
22. Reuben answered them, "Didn't I warn you not to sin against the boy, yet you refused to listen? Therefore, see, his blood is required."
23. They themselves did not know that Joseph was listening, because an interpreter was between them.
24. He turned away from them and wept, then returned to them and spoke to them, took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.
25. Joseph commanded their bags filled with grain, each man's money returned to his sack, and provisions given them for the journey. So he did for them.
26. They loaded their grain onto their donkeys and departed from there.
27. When one of them opened his sack to give feed to his donkey at the inn, he saw his silver—behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28. He said to his brothers, "My money has come back—even look, it's in my sack!" Their hearts failed, and they trembled, each to his brother, saying, "What is this God has done to us?"
29. They came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him everything that had befallen them, saying,
30. The man, the master of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as spies of the land.
31. We answered him, "We are truthful; we are no spies."
32. We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is gone, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33. The man, the lord of the land, said to us, "By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, take supplies for the famine of your houses, and go."
34. Bring your youngest brother to me, and I will know that you are not spies, but that you are upright. I will give your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.
35. As they emptied their sacks, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their money bundles, they were afraid.
36. Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me: Joseph is gone, Simeon is gone, and you will take Benjamin from me. All these things are against me."
37. Reuben said to his father, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Put him into my hand, and I will return him to you."
38. He said, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone remains. If calamity strikes him along the road you travel, then you will bring my old age with grief to Sheol."

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[Genesis 41](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/41.md)
[Genesis 43](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/43.md)

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