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## Genesis 42:23 in Context (Verses 20–26 KJV)
 
 [20 ](/kjv/genesis/42/20) But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/genesis/42/21) ¶ And they said one to another, We *are* verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/genesis/42/22) And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/genesis/42/23) And they knew not that Joseph understood *them;* for he spake unto them by an interpreter.*
 
 [24 ](/kjv/genesis/42/24) And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/genesis/42/25) ¶ Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/genesis/42/26) And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
 
[Genesis 41](/kjv/genesis/41) [Genesis 43](/kjv/genesis/43)

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