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28 He reported to his brothers, “My money has been returned! It’s right here in my sack!”

Trembling with mounting consternation, each of them asked one another, “What is God doing to us?”

Jacob Learns What Happened in Egypt

29 As soon as they had returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them. 30 “The man who was in charge[a] of the land spoke harshly to us,” they said. “He accused us of being spies![b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 42:30 Lit. was lord; and so in v. 33
  2. Genesis 42:30 Lit. spies of the land

28 “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.”

Their hearts sank(A) and they turned to each other trembling(B) and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”(C)

29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan,(D) they told him all that had happened to them.(E) They said, 30 “The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us(F) and treated us as though we were spying on the land.(G)

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