4. but Jacob did not send Joseph's full-brother Benjamin with them, because he was afraid that something might happen to him.
5. The sons of Jacob came with others to buy corn, because there was famine in the land of Canaan.
6. Joseph, as governor of the land of Egypt, was selling corn to people from all over the world. So Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
7. When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he acted as if he did not know them. He asked them harshly, “Where do you come from?”“We have come from Canaan to buy food,” they answered.