Genesis 42 (Greek, Swete) — Coptic · Cairene

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Source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Genesis 42; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)

Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)

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The text

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ref	L0 witness
42:1	Ἰδὼν δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὃτι ἐστὶν πρᾶαις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ εἶπεν τοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῦ ἵνα τί ῥᾳθυμεῖτε ;
42:2	ἰδοὺ ἀκήκοα ὅτι ἐστὶν σῖτος ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ· κατάβητε ἐκεῖ καὶ πρίασθε ἡμῖν μικρὰ βρώματα, ἳνα ζῶμεν καὶ μὴ ἀποθόνωμεν.
42:3	κατέβησαν δὲ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἸωσὴΦ οἱ δέκα πρίασθαι σῖτον ἐξ Αἰγύπτου·
42:4	τὶν δὲ Βενιαμεὶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἸωσὴΦ οὐκ ἀπέστειλεν μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ· εἶπεν γάρ Μή ποτε συμβῇ αὐτῷ μαλακια.
42:5	ἦλθον δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἀγοράζειν μετὰ τῶν ἐρχομένων· ἦν γὰρ ὁ λιμὸς ἐν γῇ Χανάαν.
42:6	ἸωσὴΦ δὲ ἦν ἄρχων τῆς γῆς, οὗτος ἐπώλει παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς· ἐλθόντες δὲ οἱ άσελΦοὶ ἸωσὴΦ πρόσ’· εκύνησαν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἔπι τὴν γῆν.
42:7	ἰδὼν δὲ ἸωσὴΦ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐπέγνω, καὶ ἠλλοτριοῦτο ἀπ’ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς σκληρά, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ΙΙόθεν ἥκατε ; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν Ἐκ γῆς Χανάαν, ἀγοράσαι βρώματα.
42:8	ἐπέγνω δὲ ἸωσὴΦ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ, αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἐπέγνωςαν αὐτόν·
42:9	καὶ ἐμνήσθη ἸωσὴΦ τῶν ἐνυπνίων ὦν ἴδεν αὐτός. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Κατάσκοποί ἐστε, κατα νοῆσαι τὰ ἴχνη τῆς χώρας ἥκατε.
42:10	δὲ εἶπαν οὐχί, κύριε· οἱ παῖδές σου ἤλθομεν πριάσασθαι βρώματα·
42:11	πάντες ἐσμὲν υἱοὶ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου, εἰρηνικοί ἐσμεν· οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ παῖδές σου κατάσκοποι.
42:12	εἶπεν δὲ αὐτοῖς οὐχί, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἴχνη τῆς γῆς ἤλθατε ἰδεῖν.
42:13	οἱ δὲ εἶπαν Δώδεκά ἐσμεν οἱ οἱ παῖδές σου ἀδελφοὶ ἐν γῇ χανάαν. καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ
42:14	εῖπεν δὲ αὐτοῖς ἸωσήΦ τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ εἴρηκα ὑμῖν, λέγων ὃτι κατά· σκοποί ἐστε·
42:15	ἐν τούτῳ φανεῖσθε· νὴ τὴν ὑγίαν Φαραώ, οὐ μὴ ἐξέλθητε ἐντεῦθεν ἐάν μὴ ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὑμῶν ὁ νεώτερος
42:16	ἀποστείλατε ἐξ ὑμῶν ἕνα, καὶ λάβετε τὸν ἀδελΦὸ δὲ ἀπάχθητε ἕως τοῦ φανερὰ γενέσθαι τὰ ῥήματα ὑμῶν, εἰ ἅλ’ οὔ· εἰ δὲ μή, νὴ τὴν Φαραώ, εἰ μὴν κατάσκοποί ἐστε.
42:17	καὶ ἔθετο αὐτοὺς ἐν φυλακῇ ἡμέρας τρεῖς·
42:18	εἶπεν δὲ δὲ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ Τοῦτο ποιήσατε, καὶ ζήσεσθε· τὸν θεὸν γὰρ ἐγὼ φοβοῦμαι.
42:19	εἰ εἰρηνικοί ἐστε, ἀδελφὸς ὑμῶν εἷς κατασχεθήτω ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ· αὐτοὶ δὲ βαδίσατε καὶ ἀπαγάγετε τὸν ἀγορασμὸν τῆς σιτοδοσίας ὑμῶν,
42:20	καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὑμῶν τὸν νεώτερον καταγάγετε πρὸς μέ, καὶ πιστευθήσονται τὰ ῥήματα ὑμῶν· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀποθανεῖσθε. ἐποίησαν δὲ οὕτως.
42:21	καὶ εἰπεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Ναί, ἐν ἁμαρτίᾳ γάρ αὐτοῦ ὃτε κατεδέετο ἡμῶν καὶ οὐκ εἰσηκούσαμεν αὐτοῦ· ἕνεκεν τούτου ἐπῆλθεν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς ἡ θλίψις αὕτη.
42:22	ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ Ῥουβὴν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὐκ ἐλάλησα ὑμῖν λέγων Μὴ ἀδικήσητε τὸ παιδάριον ; καὶ οὐκ εἰσηκούσατέ μου· καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐκζητεῖται.
42:23	αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ᾔδεισαν ὅτι ἀκούει Ἰωσήφ, ὁ γὰρ ἑρμηνευτὴς ἀνὰ μέσον αὐτῶν
42:24	ἀποστραΦεὸς ῥαφεὶς δὲ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἒκλαυσεν ἸωσήΦ. καὶ πάλιν π ροσἡλθεν πρὸς αὐτοὺς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἔλαβεν τὸν Συμεὼν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἒδησεν αὐτὸν ἐναντίον αὐτῶν.
42:25	ἐνετείλατο δὲ Ἰωσὴφ ἐμπλῆσαι τὰ ἂδησεν αὐτῶν σίτου, καὶ ἀποδοῦναι τὸ ἀργύριον ἑκάστου εἰς τὸν σάκκον αὐτοῦ, καὶ δοῦναι αὐτοῖς ἐπισιτισμὸν εἰς τὴν ὁδόν. καὶ ἐγενήθη αὐτοῖς οὕτως.
42:26	καὶ ἐπιθέντες τὸν σῖτον ἐπὶ τοὺς ὂνους αὐτῶν ἀπῆλθον ἐκεῖθεν.
42:27	λύσας δὲ εἷς τὸν μάρσιππον αὐτοῦ, δοῦναι χορτάσματα τοῖς ὄνοις αὐτοῦ οὗ κατέλυσαν, ἴδεν τὸν δεσμὸν τοῦ ἀργυρίου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἦν ἐπάνω τοῦ στόματος τοῦ μαρσίππου.
42:28	καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς ἀδελΦοῖς αὐτοῦ Ἀπεδόθη μοι τὸ ἀργύριον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τοῦτο ἐν τῶ μαρσίππῳ μου. καὶ ἐξέστη ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐταράχθησαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους λέγοντες Τί τοῦτο ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς ἡμῖν ;
42:29	ἦλθον δὲ πρὸς Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν εἰς γῆν Χανάαν, καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν αὐτῷ πάντα τὰ συμβεβηκότα αὐτοῖς λέγοντες
42:30	λελάληκεν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ κύριος τῆς γῆς πρὸς ἡμᾶς σκληρά, καὶ ἔθετο ἡμᾶς ἐν φυλακῆ ὡς κατασκοπεύοντας E τὴν γῆν.’
42:31	εἲπαμεν δὲ αὐτῷ Εἰρηνικοί ἐσμεν, οὐκ ἐσμὲν κατάσκοποι.
42:32	δώδεκα ἀδελφοί ἐσμεν, υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν· ὁ εἷς οὐχ ὐπάρχει, ὁ δὲ μικρότερος μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν σήμερον εἰς γῆν Χανάαν.
42:33	εἶπεν δὲ ἡμῖν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὃς ὁ κύριος τῆς γῆς Ἐν τούτῳ γνωσόμεθα ὃτι εἰρηνικοί ἐστε· ἀδελφὸν ἕνα ἄφετε ὦδε μετ’ ἐμοῦ, τὸν δὲ ἀγορασμὸν τῆς σιτοδοσίας ὑμῶν λαβόντες ἀπέλθατε·
42:34	καὶ ἀγάγετε πρὸς με τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὑμῶν τὸν νεώτερον, καὶ γνώσομαι ὅτι οὐ κατάσκοποί ἐστε, ἀλλ’ ὅτι εἰρηνικοί ἐστε· καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὑμῶν ἀποδώσω ὑμῖν, καὶ τῆ γῇ ἐμπορεύεσθε.
42:35	ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν τῶ κατακενοῦν αὐτοὺς τοὺς σάκκους αὐτῶν, καὶ ἢν ἑκάστου ὁ δεσμὸς τοῦ ἀργυρίου ἐν τῷ σλακκῳ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἴδον τοὺς δεσμοὺς τοῦ ἀργυρίου αὐτῶν αὐτοὶ καὶ ὁ πατήρ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν.
42:36	εἶπεν δὲ αὐτοῖς Ἰακὼβ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν Ἐμὲ ἠτεκνώ. ΙωσὴΦ οὐκ ἔστιν, Συμεὼν οὐκ ἔστιν, καὶ τὸν Βενιαμεὶν λήμἐπ' ἐμὲ ἐγένετο πάντα ταῦτα.
42:37	εἶπεν δὲ Ῥουβὴν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ λέγων τοὺς δύο υἱούς μου ἀπόκτεινον, ἐὰν μὴ ἀγάγω αὐτὸν πρὸς σέ· δὸς αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν χεῖρά μου, κἀγὼ ἀνάξω αὐτὸν πρὸς σέ.
42:38	ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Οὐ καταβήσεται ὁ υἱός μου μεθ’ ὑμῶν, ὅτι ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ἀπέθανεν, καὶ αὐτὸς μόνος καταλέλειπται· καὶ συμβήσεται αὐτὸν μαλακισθῆναι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ᾗ ἂν πορεύεσθε, καὶ κατάξετέ μου τὸ γῆρας μετὰ λύπης εἰς ἅ̣δου.

Provenance

title: Genesis 42 (Greek, Swete)
dialect: greek
source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Genesis 42; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
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attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
file: Bible/Old Testament/Genesis/42.greek.swete.L0.txt

Cite as:

Genesis 42 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Genesis 42; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/genesis/42.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

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L0 witness
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.

L0.5 transliteration
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).

L1 Cairene
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.

L2 Kemetic
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.

English
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