Genesis 42:8
American Standard Version
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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Genesis 42:8 in other translations
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
Genesis 42:8 in context
- 6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
- 7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
- 8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
- 9And 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.
- 10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.