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Genesis - ch 42 v 1 - 20
- And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
- I 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.
- So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
- Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
- And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
- And 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,
- And 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.
- And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
- And 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.
- But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
- We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
- And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
- But 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.
- He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
- I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
- Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
- So he put them in prison three days.
- And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
- If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
- And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
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