Genesis 42:1-9 ▼

1 And Jacob sees that there is grain in Egypt, and Jacob says to his sons, “Why do you look at each other?”

2 He also says, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt, go down there, and buy for us from there, and we live and do not die”;

3 and the ten brothers of Joseph go down to buy grain in Egypt,

4 and Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob has not sent with his brothers, for he said, “Lest harm meet him.”

5 And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine has been in the land of Canaan,

6 and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph’s brothers come and bow themselves to him—face to the earth.

7 And Joseph sees his brothers, and discerns them, and makes himself strange to them, and speaks sharp things with them, and says to them, “From where have you come?” And they say, “From the land of Canaan—to buy food.”

8 And Joseph discerns his brothers, but they have not discerned him,

9 and Joseph remembers the dreams which he dreamed of them and says to them, “You [are] spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”