1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look one on another? Compare verse1 commentary
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die. Compare verse
3 And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy corn in Egypt. Compare verse
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brothers; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. Compare verse1 commentary
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Compare verse
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 brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. Compare verse1 commentary
7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, From where come you? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. Compare verse
8 And Joseph knew his brothers, but they knew not him. Compare verse
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you are come. Compare verse1 commentary
10 And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food are your servants come. Compare verse
11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, your servants are no spies. Compare verse
12 And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you are come. Compare verse
13 And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. Compare verse1 commentary
14 And Joseph said to them, That is it that I spoke to you, saying, You are spies: Compare verse
15 Hereby you shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come here. Compare verse
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies. Compare verse
17 And he put them all together into ward three days. Compare verse
18 And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: Compare verse
19 If you be true men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go you, carry corn for the famine of your houses: Compare verse
20 But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and you shall not die. And they did so. Compare verse
21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he sought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come on us. Compare verse2 commentaries
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not to you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required. Compare verse
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter. Compare verse
24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. Compare verse2 commentaries
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he to them. Compare verse
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed there. Compare verse
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth. Compare verse
28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored; and, see, 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 to us? Compare verse1 commentary
29 And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell to them; saying, Compare verse
30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. Compare verse
31 And we said to him, We are true men; we are no spies: Compare verse
32 We be twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. Compare verse
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, Hereby shall I know that you are true men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: Compare verse
34 And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall traffic in the land. Compare verse
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. Compare verse
36 And Jacob their father said to them, Me have you bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. Compare verse1 commentary
37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again. Compare verse
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Compare verse1 commentary