Genesis 42

¹And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

²I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

³So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

⁴Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

⁵And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

⁶And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

⁷And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

⁸And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.

⁹And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

¹⁰But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.

¹¹We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

¹²And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

¹³But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.