Genesis 42:32–33
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.
We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father, in the land of Canaan.
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:
And the man the LORD of the countrey said vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode for the famine of your housholds, and be gone.
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- Genesis 42:19–20Rank 1 from verse 33
19If 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:
20But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: goe ye, carry corne for the famine of your houses.
20But *bring your yongest brother vnto mee, so shall your wordes be verified, and yee shall not die: and they did so.
- Genesis 42:15Rank 2 from verse 33
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Genesis 42:32
1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.
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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.
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Having the least age; the least old among the persons compared.
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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.
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Genesis 42:33
1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.
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A master, owner, ruler, husband, or other man in authority.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.
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By this, by this means, or from this evidence.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.
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Conforming to fact, reality, or a right standard; faithful, genuine, correct, or dependable.
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1. To depart, cease from, abandon, forsake, release, permit, entrust, bequeath, cause or allow to remain, omit, exclude, or not take. 2. As a noun, permission or liberty to act, including permission to depart.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.
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In this place, at this point, or in the present circumstance.
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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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households
Sense 1: Families and others dwelling together in houses. Sense 2: Things belonging to the home.
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Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.
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42:29¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
42:29¶ And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell vnto them, saying;
42:30The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
42:30The man who is the LORD of the land, spake †roughly to vs, and tooke vs for spies of the countrey.
42:31And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
42:31And we said vnto him, We are true men; we are no spies.
42:32We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
42:32We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father, in the land of Canaan.
Selected passage42:33And 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:
42:33And the man the LORD of the countrey said vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode for the famine of your housholds, and be gone.
Selected passage42:34And 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.
42:34And bring your yongest brother vnto me: then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall traffique in the land.