| 1 | Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? |
| 2 | And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. |
| 3 | And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. |
| 4 | But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. |
| 5 | And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. |
| 6 | And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. |
| 7 | And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. |
| 8 | And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. |
| 9 | And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. |
| 10 | And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. |
| 11 | We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. |
| 12 | And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. |
| 13 | And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. |
| 14 | And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spoke unto you, saying, Ye are spies: |
| 15 | Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. |
| 16 | Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. |
| 17 | And he put them all together into ward three days. |