Genesis 42

¹And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

²And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy [grain] for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.

³And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt.

⁴But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.

⁵So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁶And Joseph, he was the governor over the land — he it was that sold [the corn] to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the earth.

⁷And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food.

⁸And Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.

⁹And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed places of the land ye are come.

¹⁰And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food are thy servants come.

¹¹We are all one man's sons; we are honest: thy servants are not spies.

¹²And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of the land are ye 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.