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Joseph recognized his brothers, but [a]they did not recognize him. Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies; you have come [with a malicious purpose] to observe the [b]undefended parts of our land.” 10 But they said to him, “No, my lord, for your servants have [only] come to buy food.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 42:8 Perhaps as many as twenty years had passed since his brothers last saw Joseph. They never would have suspected that the powerful Egyptian ruler standing before them was their brother.
  2. Genesis 42:9 Lit nakedness.

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