Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” Act 7:12Jos 7:101Ki 19:32Ki 8:3-4Exo 20:18Exo 5:19Ezr 10:4Gal 2:7 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.” Gen 43:8Gen 43:2Gen 43:4Gen 45:9Isa 38:1Mat 4:4Psa 118:17 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. Gen 42:13Gen 42:5 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” Gen 42:38Gen 11:4Gen 3:22Gen 33:1-2Gen 35:16-19Gen 43:14Gen 43:29Gen 44:20-22 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Act 7:11Gen 12:10Gen 41:57Gen 26:1Act 11:28 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. Act 7:10Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Gen 37:7-10Gen 41:40-41Gen 41:55-56Gen 44:14Gen 45:26 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” Gen 42:30Gen 42:14-17Gen 42:19-20Gen 42:9-12Mat 15:23-26
They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. Gen 37:2Jhn 20:14Jhn 21:4Luk 24:16 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.” Exo 32:35Gen 37:5-91Sa 26:4Gen 42:16Gen 42:30-31Gen 42:34Heb 11:31Jdg 1:24
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. Gen 37:81Ki 18:71Sa 26:17Gen 27:29Gen 27:37Gen 44:9 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.” 2Co 6:4Gen 42:19Gen 42:33-34Jhn 7:18
He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.” Gen 37:30Gen 42:32Gen 44:20Gen 43:71Ch 2:1-8Exo 1:2-5Gen 29:32-35Gen 30:6-24
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ Gen 42:9-11Job 13:24Job 19:11Mat 15:21-28 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 1Sa 17:551Sa 1:261Sa 20:3Deu 6:13Gen 42:12Gen 42:16Gen 42:20Gen 42:30 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.” Gen 42:11 He put them all together into custody for three days. Gen 40:4Gen 40:7Heb 12:10Act 4:3Act 5:18Gen 41:10Isa 24:22Lev 24:12
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God. Lev 25:43Neh 5:15Gen 20:11Luk 18:2Luk 18:4Neh 5:9 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. Gen 40:3Gen 41:56Gen 42:1-2Gen 42:26Gen 43:1-2Gen 45:23Isa 42:22Isa 42:7 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” Gen 42:34Gen 43:5Gen 44:23Gen 42:15Gen 42:26Gen 43:19Gen 6:22Jhn 2:5
They did so. They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.” Hos 5:15Gen 37:23-28Job 36:8-9Mrk 9:43-451Jn 1:91Ki 17:182Sa 12:13Act 19:18 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.” 1Ki 2:322Ch 24:22Psa 9:12Gen 37:21-22Gen 9:5-6Luk 11:50-51Act 28:4Ezk 3:18 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 2Co 5:20Jhn 16:13-14 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. Gen 43:301Co 12:26Gen 34:25Gen 43:14Gen 43:23Gen 45:14-15Gen 49:5-7Heb 4:15 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. 1Pe 3:9Gen 44:1-2Gen 45:21Isa 55:1Mat 5:44Mat 6:33Rom 12:17-21
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. Exo 4:24Gen 43:21-22Gen 44:11Luk 10:34Luk 2:7 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?” Isa 45:7Lam 3:371Ki 10:5Deu 28:65Gen 27:33Gen 42:36Gen 43:23Lam 2:17 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. Gen 42:7 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies. Gen 42:11 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 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, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. Gen 42:19-20Gen 42:15 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’” Gen 34:10Gen 34:211Ki 10:15Ezk 17:4
As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. Gen 43:21Gen 42:27-28Gen 43:12Gen 43:15 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.” Gen 43:14Rom 8:311Sa 27:1Ecc 7:8Isa 27:9Isa 38:10Isa 41:10Isa 41:13-14
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.” Gen 46:9Mic 6:7Gen 43:9Gen 44:32-34
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” 1 Gen 37:35Gen 37:33Gen 42:4Gen 42:13Gen 35:16-181Ki 2:6Ecc 1:14Ecc 2:26