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Genesis 42:8
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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Genesis 42:8 in other translations
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
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In context
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to 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 to them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land have ye come.
10 And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food have thy servants come.
11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men]; thy servants are no spies.
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