Genesis 42:1-9 ▼

1 And Iacob seing that there was corne in Egypt, sayde vnto his sonnes: why gape ye one vpon another?

2 And he said: behold, I haue hearde that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thyther, and bye vs corne from thence, that we may liue, and not dye.

3 So went Iosephes ten brethren downe to bye corne in Egypt.

4 But Beniamin Iosephes brother, woulde not Iacob sende with his other brethren: for he saide, lest peraduenture destruction come vpon hym.

5 And the sonnes of Irael came to bye corne among other that came: for there was dearth in the lande of Chanaan.

6 And Ioseph was gouernour in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And Iosephes brethren came and bowed them selues with theyr faces downe to the grounde before him.

7 When Ioseph sawe his brethren, he knewe them, and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, & spake roughly vnto them, saying: Whence come ye? They aunswered, out of the lande of Chanaan to bye vitayle.

8 And Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knewe not him.

9 And Ioseph remembred his dreames whiche he dreamed of them, and sayde vnto them: ye are spyes, and to see where the lande is weake, is your commyng.