And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why look ye one on another?
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down thither, and buy for us from thence, in order that we may live and not die.
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy out of Egypt.
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.
So the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph, he [was] the governor over the land; he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the earth.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly with them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
And Joseph knew his brethren; but they knew him not.
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food thy servants are come.
We [are] all sons of one man; we [are] true; thy servants are not spies.
And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
And they said, Thy servants [were] twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan: and, behold, the youngest [is] this day with our father; and one [is] not.
And Joseph said to them, That [is it] that I have spoken to you, saying, Ye [are] spies.
By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence unless your youngest brother come hither.
Send one of you that he may fetch your brother; but ye shall be bound, and your words shall be put to proof whether the truth [is] in you; and if not, as Pharaoh liveth, ye [are] spies.
And he gathered them all into ward three days.
And Joseph said to them the third day, This do that ye may live: I fear God.
If ye [are] true, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of their prison; but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;
and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words may be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.
Then said they one to another, We [are] indeed guilty concerning our brother whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us and we did not hearken: therefore is this distress come upon us.
And Reuben answered them saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? but ye did not hearken; and now, behold, his blood also is required.
And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
And he turned away from them and wept.
And Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and so it was done to them.
And they loaded their asses with their corn and departed thence.
And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging place, he saw his money, and, behold, it was in the sack’s mouth.
And he said to his brethren, My money is returned, and, behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this God hath done to us?
And they came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
And we said to him, We [are] true; we are not spies;
we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father: one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [for] the hunger of your households,
and go and bring your youngest brother to me; and I shall know that ye [are] not spies but [are] true: your brother will I give up to you; and ye may trade in the land.
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man [had] his bundle of money in his sack; and they saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were afraid.
And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have made me childless: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things fall on me.
And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons if I bring him not back to thee again; give him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.