1Now when Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why are ye looking upon one another? 2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt; go down there and buy for us from there that we may live, and not die. 3And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy wheat in Egypt. 4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure disaster befall him. 5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6And Joseph [was] the lord over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold [the wheat] to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth. 7And when Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them, but made himself strange unto them and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Where have you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8And Joseph knew his brethren but they did not know him. 9Then 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. 10And they said unto him, No, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. 11We [are] all one man's sons; we are men of [the] truth, thy servants have never been spies. 12And he said unto them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 13And 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. 14And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that [which] I spoke unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies: 15Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here. 16Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved, whether [there is any] truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies. 17And he put them all together into prison for three days. 18And Joseph said unto them the third day, Do this and live, [for] I fear God. 19If ye [are] men of [the] truth, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison; go ye, carry food for the famine of your houses 20but bring your youngest brother unto me, so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 21And they said one to another, We [are] truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22Then Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak unto you, saying, Do not sin against the young man, and ye would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is also required. 23And they did not know that Joseph understood [them], for he spoke unto them by an interpreter. 24And he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and spoke with them and took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. 25Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with wheat and to restore each man's money into his sack and to give them provisions for the way; and thus it was done unto them. 26And they laded their asses with the wheat and departed from there. 27And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass fodder in the inn, he saw his money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth. 28And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, behold, [it is] even in my sack. And their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God has done unto us? 29And they came unto Jacob, their father, unto the land of Canaan and told him all that had befallen them, saying, 30The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us for spies of the country. 31And we said unto him, We [are] men of [the] truth; we have never been spies. 32We [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 33And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby I shall know that ye [are] men of [the] truth; leave one of your brethren [here] with me and take [food for] the famine of your households and go 34and bring your youngest brother unto me; then I shall know that ye [are] not spies, but [that] ye [are] men of [the] truth; [thus] I will deliver you your brother, and ye shall trade in the land. 35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, each man's bundle of money [was] in his sack; and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 36And Jacob, their father, said unto them, Ye have bereaved me [of my sons]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]; all these things are upon me. 37And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I do not bring him to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. 38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; if [some] disaster should befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.: