Genesis 42:1-8 ▼

1 And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you⁺ look at one another?”

2 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, and we shall live and not die.”

3 And ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4 And Jacob did not send Benjamin, brother of Joseph, with his brothers, for he said, “Lest harm befall him.”

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy in the midst the ones coming, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph—he was the ruler over the land; he was the one selling to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came, and they bowed themselves before him, noses to the earth.

7 And Joseph saw his brothers and he recognized them, and he made himself strange to them, and spoke to them harshly. And he 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, and they did not recognize him.