1. When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2. Then he said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die.”
3. And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for he feared harm would come to him.
5. Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
6. Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
7. And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, “From where have you come?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”
8. And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
9. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
10. And they said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11. We all are sons of one man. We are honest men. We, your servants, are not spies.”