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## Genesis 42:7-13 in Context (Verses 4–16 KJV)
 
 [4 ](/kjv/genesis/42/4) But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/genesis/42/5) And the sons of Israel came to buy *corn* among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/genesis/42/6) And Joseph *was* the governor over the land, *and* he *it was* that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him *with* their faces to the earth.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/genesis/42/7) And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/genesis/42/8) And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/genesis/42/9) And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye *are* spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/genesis/42/10) And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/genesis/42/11) We *are* all one man’s sons; we *are* true *men*, thy servants are no spies.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/genesis/42/12) And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/genesis/42/13) And they said, Thy servants *are* twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest *is* this day with our father, and one *is* not.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/genesis/42/14) And Joseph said unto them, That *is it* that I spake unto you, saying, Ye *are* spies:
 
 [15 ](/kjv/genesis/42/15) Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/genesis/42/16) Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether *there be any* truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye *are* spies.*
 
[Genesis 41](/kjv/genesis/41) [Genesis 43](/kjv/genesis/43)

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