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Genesis 43:13-22 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. And take your brother. Now arise and return to the man.

14. And may El-Shaddai grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

15. So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

16. When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the one who was over his household, “Bring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare an animal, for the men shall eat with me at noon.”

17. And the man did as Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into the house of Joseph.

18. And the men were afraid when they were brought into the house of Joseph. And they said “We were brought here on account of the money that was returned to our sacks the first time, that he might attack us and fall upon us to take us as slaves with our donkeys.”

19. So they approached the man who was over Joseph’s house and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.

20. And they said, “Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,

21. but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one’s money was in the mouth of his sack—our money in its full weight—so we have returned with it in our hands.

22. Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.”

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