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When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
2
And he said, "Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die."
3
So Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
4
But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "Lest some calamity befall him."
5
And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6
Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth.
7
Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, "Where do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
8
So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
9
Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!"