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Genesis 42:8-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

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