The Beginning (Genesis) 42

1 Now when Heel-Grabber (Jacob) saw that there was corn in Double Straights (Egypt), Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said to his sons, “Why are you standing around just looking at each other?”

2 He said, “I have heard that there is corn in Double Straights (Egypt). Go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.”

3 So Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s ten brothers went down to buy corn in Double Straights (Egypt).

4 But Heel-Grabber (Jacob) would not send Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin), Yehovah Will Add's (Joseph) brother, with his brethren; for he said, “Lest mischief befall him.”

5 So the sons of God Prevails (Israel) went to buy grain along with others: for the famine was also in the land of Humbled One (Canaan).

6 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was the governor over the land. It was he that sold to all the people of the land: and Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

7 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) saw his brothers, and he knew them, but didn't tell them, and spoke roughly to them. He said to them, “Where are you from?” They answered, “From the land of Humbled One (Canaan). We have come to buy food.”

8 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) knew his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

9 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness of the land.”

10 They answered him, “No, my lord, Your servants came only to buy food.

11 We are all one man's sons; we are truthful men, your servants are not spies.”

12 He insisted, “No, you have come to see the weakness of the land.”

13 And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Humbled One (Canaan). The youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.”

14 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) accused them to them, “It is as I spoke to you, you are spies.

15 This is how you will be tested: By the life of the Great House (Pharaoh) you will not leave here, unless your youngest brother come here.

16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother. The rest of you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there is any truth in you: or else by the life of the Great House (Pharaoh) You are surely spies.”

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

18 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to them on the third day, “This do, and live; for I fear God:

19 If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go take corn for the famine to your houses:

20 But bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.

21 They said one to another, “We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.”

22 Behold a Son (Reuben) answered them, saying, “Didn't I tell you, Do not sin against the child. But you wouldn't hear it? Therefore, blood is required.”

23 But they didn't know that Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) understood them because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

24 He turned himself from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and talked with them, and took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.

25 Then Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. This is what did he to them.

26 And they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed from there.

27 As one of them opened his sack to give his ass food when they stopped for the night, he saw his money., It was in his sack's mouth.

28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored. It is in my sack!” And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, “What is this that God has done to us?”

29 They went back to Heel-Grabber (Jacob) their father in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), and told him all that happened to them; saying,

30 “The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

31 We said to him, We are honest men. We are not spies.

32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with our father in the land of Humbled One (Canaan).

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, This is how I will know you are honest: Leave one of your brothers with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone.

34 And bring your youngest brother to me. Then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. Then I will deliver you your brother, and you will be able to trade in the land.”

35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

36 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children. Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin) away. All these things are against me.”

37 Behold a Son (Reuben) spoke to his father, saying, “Slay my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again.”

38 But he replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother is dead, and he alone is left. If mischief befalls him on the way, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”