Genesis 42
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Genesis 42:25-35

251Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, but also to return every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And that is what was done for them.

26So they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed from there. 27But when one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the overnight campsite, he saw his 2money; and behold, it was in the opening of his sack! 28So he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned, and look, it is right in my sack!” Then their hearts 3sank, and they turned 4trembling to one another, saying, “5What is this that God has done to us?”

29When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them, saying, 30“The man, the lord of the land, 6spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31But we said to him, ‘We are 7honest men; we are not spies. 32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’ 33But the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘8By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go. 34But bring your youngest brother to me so that I may know that you are not spies, but 9honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may 10trade in the land.’”

35Now it came about, as they were emptying their sacks, that behold, 11every man’s bag of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bags of money, they were afraid.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 42:25 Gen 44:1; Rom 12:17, 20, 21; 1 Pet 3:9 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 42:27 Gen 43:21, 22 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 42:28 Lit went out ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 42:28 Lit trembled ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 42:28 Gen 43:23 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 42:30 Gen 42:7 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 42:31 Gen 42:11 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 42:33 Gen 42:19, 20 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 42:34 Lit you are honest ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 42:34 Gen 34:10 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 42:35 Gen 43:12, 15, 21 ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 42

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