Genesis 42
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Genesis 42:25-35

25And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.

26Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.

27And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

28He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

29When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,

30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.

31But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies.

32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

33Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.

34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

35As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

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