Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 42:31-35 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

31. But we told him, “We're honest men, not spies.

32. We come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and the other is dead.”

33. Then the governor of Egypt told us, “I'll find out if you really are honest. Leave one of your brothers here with me, while you take the grain to your starving families.

34. But bring your youngest brother to me, so I can be certain that you are honest men and not spies. After that, I'll let your other brother go free, and you can stay here and trade.”

35. When the brothers started emptying their sacks of grain, they found their money bags in them. They were frightened, and so was their father Jacob,