Genesis 42
1Joseph’s father So Jacob talked to his sons, and he said to them, “Don’t just stand around doing nothing.
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5In 1 Joseph pretended that he didn’t know his brothers
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7-8 But they didn’t know that he was their brother Joseph. They thought that he was one of the Egypt people. Joseph looked at those men, and he saw that they were his brothers. But Joseph pretended that he didn’t know them. He talked to them in the Egypt language, and somebody else talked to Joseph’s brothers in their own language and told them the things Joseph said. And Joseph talked in a rough way to them. He said, “Where do you mob come from?” His brothers said, “We come from Canaan country. We want to buy food here in Egypt.”
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9Then Joseph kept on pretending that he didn’t know them. He said to his brothers, “ I reckon you mob are lying to me. I reckon you are my enemies. You came here to find out about our country, so that your people can attack us.”
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12Joseph
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20Then So Joseph’s brothers agreed to do what he said. But they still didn’t know that he was their brother Joseph. They still thought he was an Egypt man.
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24When After a while, Joseph stopped crying. Then he went back to his brothers, and he talked to them in the Egypt language again. And Joseph picked his brother Simeon to stay in Egypt country. He told his men to tie up Simeon, and they tied him up in front of his brothers. 1 Joseph’s brothers went back to Canaan country
25Then Joseph’s brothers already paid for that food, but Joseph talked secretly to his workers, and he said, “ Get the money that those men paid us, and hide it in their food bags.” So those workers did what Joseph said. Then they gave those food bags to Joseph’s brothers, with the money inside. But Joseph’s brothers didn’t know that their money was in those bags.
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28He Then Joseph’s brothers got really worried. They thought, “ Those Egypt people will think that we stole this money.” They were really frightened, and their bodies started to shake. They said to each other, “ This thing that happened to us, it’s really bad. God is punishing us.”
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35After 1 Jacob didn’t let his sons take Benjamin to Egypt country
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38But