4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
10. But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.