1. Now when Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why are ye looking upon one another?
2. And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt; go down there and buy for us from there that we may live, and not die.
3. And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy wheat in Egypt.
4. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure disaster befall him.
5. And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6. And Joseph was the lord over the land, and he it was that sold the wheat to all the people of the land; and Joseph’s brethren came and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7. And when Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them, but made himself strange unto them and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Where have you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8. And Joseph knew his brethren but they did not know him.
9. Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10. And they said unto him, No, my lord, but to buy food are thy slaves come.
11. We are all one man’s sons; we are men of the truth, thy slaves have never been spies.
12. And he said unto them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13. And they said, Thy slaves are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14. And Joseph said unto them, That is it that which I spoke unto you, saying, Ye are spies: