Genesis 42:5

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3. Genesis 42:3

   And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4. Genesis 42:4

   But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

6. 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. 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.

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