1 And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at each other?” 2 He also said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt, go down there, and buy for us from there, and we live and do not die.” 3 And the ten brothers of Joseph go down to buy grain in Egypt, 4 and Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob had not sent with his brothers, for he said, “Lest harm meet him.” 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy in the middle of those coming, for the famine had been in the land of Canaan, 6 and Joseph was the ruler over the land, he who was selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves to him—face to the earth. 7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and discerned them, and made himself strange to them, and spoke sharp things with them, and said to them, “From where have you come?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan—to buy food.” 8 And Joseph discerned his brothers, but they had not discerned him, 9 and Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the nakedness of the land.” 10 And they said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11 We are all of us sons of one man, we are right men. Your servants have not been spies.” 12 and he said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.” 13 And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers. We are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and look, the young one is with our father today, and one is not.” 14 And Joseph said to them, “This is that which I have spoken to you, saying, You are spies, 15 by this you are proved: as Pharaoh lives, if you go out from this—except by your young brother coming here. 16 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and you, remain bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.” 17 And he gathered them into confinement for three days. 18 And Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live. I fear God! 19 If you are right men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your confinement, and you, go, carry in grain for the famine of your houses, 20 and you bring your young brother to me, and your words are established, and you do not die.” and they did so. 21 And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication to us, and we did not listen: therefore this distress has come on us.” 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the boy? And you did not listen. And his blood also, look, it is required.” 23 And they had not known that Joseph understands, for the interpreter was between them. 24 And he turned around from them, and wept, and turned back to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes. 25 And Joseph commanded, and they filled their vessels with grain, also to put back the money of each of them into his sack, and to give to them provision for the way. And one did to them so. 26 And they lifted up their grain on their donkeys, and go from there, 27 and the one opened his sack to give provender to his donkey at a lodging-place, and he saw his money, and look, it was in the mouth of his bag, 28 and he said to his brothers, “My money has been put back, and also, look, in my bag”: and their heart goes out, and they trembled, to one another saying, “What is this God has done to us!” 29 And they came to their father Jacob, to the land of Canaan, and they declared to him all the things meeting them, saying, 30 “The man, the lord of the land, has spoken with us sharp things, and makes us as spies of the land. 31 And we said to him, We are right men, we have not been spies, 32 we are twelve brothers, sons of our father, one is not, and the young one is today with our father in the land of Canaan. 33 And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I know that you are right men—leave one of your brothers with me, and take for the famine of your houses and go, 34 and bring your young brother to me, and I know that you are not spies, but you are right men. I give your brother to you, and you trade with the land.” 35 And it came to pass, they were emptying their sacks, and look, the bundle of each man’s silver was in his sack, and they saw their bundles of silver, they and their father, and were afraid. 36 And their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin you take—all these things have been against me.” 37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You put to death my two sons, if I do not bring him to you. Give him into my hand, and I bring him back to you.” 38 And he said, “My son does not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he by himself is left. When harm has met him in the way in which you go, then you have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to Sheol.”