Genesis 42Genesis 43Matthew 13.1-23Genesis 42
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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And 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.
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And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
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But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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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.
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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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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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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.
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We [are] all one man's sons we [are] true [men], thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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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.
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And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies:
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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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.
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live [for] I fear God:
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If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
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But bring your youngest brother unto me so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
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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.
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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.
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And they knew not that Joseph understood [them] for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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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.
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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.
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And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money for, behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth.
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And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them saying,
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The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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And we said unto him, We [are] true [men] we are no spies:
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We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true [men] leave one of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:
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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money [was] in his sack: and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these things are against me.
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And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
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And he said, My son shall not go down with you for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 43
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And the famine [was] sore in the land.
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And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
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And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.
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If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
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But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.
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And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye [so] ill with me, [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
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And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
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And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little ones.
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I will be surety for him of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
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For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
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And their father Israel said unto them, If [it must be] so now, do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
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And take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand peradventure it [was] an oversight:
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Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children], I am bereaved.
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And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make ready for [these] men shall dine with me at noon.
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And the man did as Joseph bade and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
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And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
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And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
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And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
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And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, [every] man's money [was] in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
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And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
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And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
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And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet and he gave their asses provender.
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And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
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And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
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And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive?
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And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
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And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
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And Joseph made haste for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought [where] to weep and he entered into [his] chamber, and wept there.
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And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
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And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews for that [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
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And he took [and sent] messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Matthew 13
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The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
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And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
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And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow
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And when he sowed, some [seeds] fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
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Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
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And when the sun was up, they were scorched and because they had no root, they withered away.
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And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
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But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
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Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
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He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
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For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
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Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
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For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
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But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
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For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see [those things] which ye see, and have not seen [them] and to hear [those things] which ye hear, and have not heard [them].
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Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
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When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
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But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it
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Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
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But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth [it] which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
