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Genesis 42:4

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2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.Select Genesis 42:2

3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.Select Genesis 42:3

4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.Select Genesis 42:4

5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.Select Genesis 42:5

6And 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.Select Genesis 42:6

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42:4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

ASV

42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

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