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Genesis 42:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 42:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 and bring your youngest brother to me. Thus your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they agreed to do so.(A) 21 They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”(B) 22 Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”(C)
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