Genesis 42:32

Translations

Modern

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Traditional

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.

Literal

We are two and ten brothers, sons of our father. The one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Latin

Duodecim fratres uno patre geniti sumus: unus non est super, minimus cum patre nostro est in terra Chanaan.

Original

Hebrew

English

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Notes

Genesis 42:29–34

The brothers’ report focused on the charge that they were spies and on the need to bring Benjamin back to Egypt with them. They did not mention that they were beginning to see God’s judgment (his just response to wrongdoing) for what they had done to Joseph.

Genesis 42:1–44:34

Joseph did several unusual things to his brothers when they came looking for grain. The last time Joseph had been with them, they were filled with jealousy, hatred, and anger; they attempted to destroy their brother, and they deceived their father. Joseph put them through various tests, similar to the trying situations they had put him through, to see if they had changed.

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