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this day with our father, and one is not. 14 Againe in the land of Canaan. 33 Then the Lord of the
Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shall I knowe if
vnto you, saying, Ye are spies. 15 Hereby ye shall ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with
be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not me, and take foode for the famine of your houses
goe hence, except your yongest brother come and depart, 34 And bring your yongest brother
hither. 16 Send one of you which may fet your vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies,
brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother,
words may be proued, whether there bee trueth and yee shall occupie in the land. 35 And as they
in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel
spies. 17 So he put them in warde three dayes. of money was in his sacke: and when they and
18 Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This their father sawe the bundels of their money,
do, and liue: for I feare God. 19 If ye be true they were afrayde. 36 Then Iaakob their father
men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children:
prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the Ioseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will
famine of your houses: 20 But bring your yonger take Beniamin: all these things are against me.
brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, 37 Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay
and that ye dye not: and they did so. 21 And my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe:
they said one to another, We haue verily sinned deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to
against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish thee againe. 38 But he said, My sonne shall not go
of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he
not heare him: therefore is this trouble come is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way
vpon vs. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head
Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the with sorow vnto the graue.
childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood
is now required. 23 (And they were not aware 43
that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto
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them by an interpreter.) 24 Then he turned from 1 Now great famine was in the land. And when
them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had
communed with them, and tooke Simeon from brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them,
among them, and bounde him before their eyes. Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode. 3 And
25 So Ioseph commanded that they should fill Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged
their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except
money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt sende
for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them. our brother with vs, we will goe downe, and bye
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26 And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, thee foode: But if thou wilt not send him, we wil
and departed thence. 27 And as one of them not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke
opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender me not in the face, except your brother be with
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in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was you. And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill
in his sackes mouth. 28 Then he sayde vnto his with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet
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brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen a brother or no? And they answered, The man
in my sacke. And their heart fayled them, and asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred,
they were astonished, and sayde one to another, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any
What is this, that God hath done vnto vs? 29 And brother? And wee tolde him according to these
they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would
of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen say, Bring your brother downe? 8 Then sayde
them, saying, 30 The man, who is Lord of the Iudah to Israel his father, Send the boy with mee,
lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison that we may rise and goe, and that we may liue
as spyes of the countrey. 31 And we sayd vnto and not dye, both we, and thou, and our children.
him, We are true men, and are no spies. 32 We 9 I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt
be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is thou require him. If I bring him not to thee,
not, and the yongest is this day with our father and set him before thee, then let me beare the
blame for euer. 10 For except we had made this