Genesis 42:21

And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

In Context

20And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

22And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:23And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:

Genesis 41:9Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:

Numbers 32:23But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

2 Samuel 12:13And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Job 33:27He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.

Job 36:8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21

Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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