23They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.


In Context

20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die.| They did so.

21 They said one to 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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:23They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:23And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:23And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter is between them;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.