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         <div class="label">40</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cupbearer and the Baker</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.40.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.40.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.40.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.40.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.40.4"><span class="content">After they had been in custody for some time, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.40.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">each of the two men&#8212;the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison&#8212;had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.40.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.40.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.40.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So he asked Pharaoh&#8217;s officials who were in custody with him in his master&#8217;s house, &#8220;Why do you look so sad today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.40.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.40.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We both had dreams,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;but there is no one to interpret them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.40.8"><span class="content">Then Joseph said to them, &#8220;Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.40.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.40.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, &#8220;In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.40.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.40.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Pharaoh&#8217;s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh&#8217;s cup and put the cup in his hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.40.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.40.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what it means,&#8221; Joseph said to him. &#8220;The three branches are three days. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.40.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh&#8217;s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.40.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.40.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.40.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.40.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, &#8220;I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">40:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">three wicker baskets</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.40.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.40.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.40.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what it means,&#8221; Joseph said. &#8220;The three baskets are three days. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.40.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.40.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.40.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now the third day was Pharaoh&#8217;s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.40.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh&#8217;s hand&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.40.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.40.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.40.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">41</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Pharaoh&#8217;s Dreams</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted&#8212;thin and scorched by the east wind. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.41.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.41.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cannot do it,&#8221; Joseph replied to Pharaoh, &#8220;but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.41.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After them, seven other cows came up&#8212;scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.41.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After them, seven other heads sprouted&#8212;withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.41.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, &#8220;The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.41.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.41.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.41.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.41.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.41.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.41.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.41.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.41.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.41.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.41.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.41.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.41.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh asked them, &#8220;Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of the gods</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.41.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.41.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.41.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph in Charge of Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.41.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.41.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.41.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph&#8217;s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.41.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:43 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the chariot of his second-in-command</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in his second chariot</span></span></span><span class="content"> and people shouted before him, &#8220;Make way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:43 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Bow down</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221; Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.41.43"></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.41.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.41.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:45 </span><span class="ft">That is, Heliopolis; also in verse 50</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.41.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.41.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh&#8217;s presence and traveled throughout Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.41.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="GEN.41.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.41.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.41.49"></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.41.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="GEN.41.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:51 </span><span class="fq">Manasseh </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">forget</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father&#8217;s household.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="GEN.41.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">The second son he named Ephraim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:52 </span><span class="fq">Ephraim </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">twice </span><span class="fq">fruitful</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="GEN.41.52"></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.41.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.41.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="GEN.41.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, &#8220;Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="GEN.41.55"></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="GEN.41.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="GEN.41.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">42</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph&#8217;s Brothers Go to Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, &#8220;Why do you just keep looking at each other?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He continued, &#8220;I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.42.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then ten of Joseph&#8217;s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph&#8217;s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Israel&#8217;s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.42.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph&#8217;s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. &#8220;Where do you come from?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.42.7"><span class="content">&#8220;From the land of Canaan,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;to buy food.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.42.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, &#8220;You are spies! You have come to see where our land is unprotected.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.42.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;No, my lord,&#8221; they answered. &#8220;Your servants have come to buy food. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We are all the sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.42.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.42.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;No!&#8221; he said to them. &#8220;You have come to see where our land is unprotected.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.42.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.42.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But they replied, &#8220;Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.42.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.42.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Joseph said to them, &#8220;It is just as I told you: You are spies! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.42.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.42.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.42.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And he put them all in custody for three days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.42.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.42.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On the third day, Joseph said to them, &#8220;Do this and you will live, for I fear God: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.42.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.42.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.&#8221; This they proceeded to do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.42.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.42.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They said to one another, &#8220;Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that&#8217;s why this distress has come on us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.42.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.42.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Reuben replied, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn&#8217;t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.42.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.42.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.42.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.42.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.42.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man&#8217;s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.42.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.42.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.42.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;My silver has been returned,&#8221; he said to his brothers. &#8220;Here it is in my sack.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"><span class="content">Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, &#8220;What is this that God has done to us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.42.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.42.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.42.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But we said to him, &#8216;We are honest men; we are not spies. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.42.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.42.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.42.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, &#8216;This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.42.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">42:34 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">move about freely</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.42.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.42.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man&#8217;s sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.42.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Their father Jacob said to them, &#8220;You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.42.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.42.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Then Reuben said to his father, &#8220;You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.42.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.42.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">But Jacob said, &#8220;My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 14</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fool</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">14:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew words rendered </span><span class="fq">fool </span><span class="ft">in Psalms denote one who is morally deficient.</span></span></span><span class="content"> says in his heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">there is no one who does good.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looks down from heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">to see if there are any who understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">any who seek God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All have turned away, all have become corrupt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="content">there is no one who does good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="content">not even one.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do all these evildoers know nothing?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="content">They devour my people as though eating bread;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="content">they never call on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"><span class="content">for God is present in the company of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is their refuge.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> restores his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="content">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 15</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who may dwell in your sacred tent?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="content">Who may live on your holy mountain?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The one whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who does what is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who speaks the truth from their heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">whose tongue utters no slander,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">who does no wrong to a neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">and casts no slur on others;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who despises a vile person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">but honors those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">who keeps an oath even when it hurts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">and does not change their mind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who lends money to the poor without interest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">Whoever does these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">will never be shaken.</span></span></div>
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