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.