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Genesis 42:5-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.

9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

10. But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.

11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

14. He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.

15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

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