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CHAPTER 42:
The Two Journeys of the
Sons of Jacob to Egypt
(42:1-25; cf. Gen. 42, 43)
1 And in the first year of the
third week of the forty-fifth
jubilee the famine began to
come into the land, and the
rain refused to be given to the
earth, for none whatever fell.
2 And the earth grew barren,
but in the land of Egypt there
was food, for Joseph had
gathered the seed of the land
in the seven years of plenty
Cf. Gn. 41:54
and had preserved it. 3 And
the Egyptians came to Joseph
that he might give them food,
and he opened the storehouses
where was the grain of the
first year, and he sold it to the
Cf. Gn. 41:56
people of the land for gold.
4 (Now the famine was very
sore in the land of Canaan),
and Jacob heard that there
was food in Egypt, and he sent
his ten sons that they should
procure food for him in Egypt;
but Benjamin he did not send,
and (the ten sons of Jacob)
arrived (in Egypt) among
those that went (there.) 5 And
Joseph recognized them, but
they did not recognize him,
and he spake unto them and
questioned them, and he
said unto them: “Are ye not
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spies, and have ye not come
to explore the approaches of
the land?” And he put them in
ward. 6 And after that he set
them free again, and detained
Simeon alone and sent off his
nine brothers. 7 And he filled
their sacks with corn, and he
put their gold in their sacks,
and they did not know. 8 And
he commanded them to bring
their younger brother, for
they had told him their father
was living and their younger
brother. 9 And they went up
from the land of Egypt and
they came to the land of
Canaan; and they told their
father all that had befallen
them, and how the lord of the
country had spoken roughly
to them, and had seized
Simeon till they should bring
Benjamin. 10 And Jacob
said: “Me have ye bereaved
of my children! Joseph is not ? An
and Simeon also is not, and interpretation
of Gn. 42:36
All these
ye will take Benjamin away. (“things
are
On me hath your wickedness against me “).
come.” 11 And he said: “My
son will not go down with you
lest perchance he fall sick; for
their mother gave birth to two
sons, and one hath perished, “If mischief
befall him
and this one also ye will take by the way
which
from me. If perchance he took inyethe
go” (Gn.
a fever on the road, ye would 42:38).
bring down my old age with
sorrow unto death.” 12 For
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