Genesis 42:1-13 ▼

1 And when Jacob shall see there is selling in Egypt, Jacob will say to his sons, For what will ye look?

2 Behold I heard that there is selling in Egypt: go ye there, and buy grain for us from thence; and we shall live and shall not die.

3 And Joseph's brethren, the ten, will go to buy grain from Egypt.

4 And Benjamin, Josephs brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest harm should meet him.

5 And the sons of Israel will come to buy in the midst of those coming; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph, he the ruler over the land, and he selling grain to all the people of the earth; and Joseph's brethren will come, and will worship before him the face to the earth.

7 And Joseph will see his brethren, and will know them, and he will not let himself be known to them. And will speak with them hard things: and he will say to them, From whence came ye? And they will say, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

8 And Joseph will know his brethren, and they knew him not.

9 And Joseph will remember the dreams which he dreamed concerning them, and he will say to them, Ye spying; to see the naked places of the land ye came.

10 And they will say to him, Nay my lord, and thy servants came to buy food.

11 We all one man's sons; we true; we thy servants were not spying.

12 And he will say to them, Nay, to see the naked places of the land ye came.

13 And they will say, Thy servants twelve brethren; we the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the little one with our father this day, and one, not.