Genesis 42:23
World English Bible (WEB)
They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
In context
21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
Genesis 42:23 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- KJV King James Version
- And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter [is] between them;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.