Joseph's brothers go to Egypt

Scripture

• Genesis 42:1

  Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

• Genesis 42:2

  And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

• Genesis 42:3

  And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

• Genesis 42:4

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

• Genesis 42:5

  And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:6

  And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

• Genesis 42:7

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

• Genesis 42:8

  And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

• Genesis 42:9

  And 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.

• Genesis 42:10

  And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

• Genesis 42:11

  We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

• Genesis 42:12

  And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

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