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And in the seuen plenteous yeres the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not goe foorth hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shalbe kept in prison, that your wordes may be proued, whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bound

And they knew not that Ioseph vnderstood them: for hee spake vnto them by an interpreter.

1611 marginal noteHebr. an interpreter was betweene them.

And he said, My sonne shall not goe downe with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischiefe befall him by the way in the which yee goe, then shall ye bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue.

And they set on for him by himselfe, and for them by themselues, and for the Egyptians which did eate with him, by themselues: because the Egyptians might not eate bread with the Hebrewes: for that is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.

¶ Then Ioseph could not refraine himselfe before all them that stood by him: and he cried, Cause euery man to goe out from me; and there stood no man with him, while Ioseph made himselfe knowen vnto his brethren.

And God sent me before you, to preserue you a posteritie in the earth, and to saue your liues by a great deliuerance.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to put for you a remnant.

And to his father hee sent after this maner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten shee asses laden with corne, and bread and meat for his father by the way.

1611 marginal noteHebr. carrying.

So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and hee said vnto them, See that yee fall not out by the way.