When Jacob [Israel] saw that there were food in Egypt, he turn to his sons and ask them why are they just standing around and looking at each other, doing nothing.
He then said to them: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get down there and buy food for us, so that we won't die.'
So 10 of Joseph's brother started their journey to Egypt to buy food.
But Jacob didn't send Benjamin with them, because he feared for Benjamin's safety.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for famine was in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he 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.
Joseph immediately recognised his brothers, but made himself strange unto them.
He said unto them: 'From where are you?.' And they say: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'
Joseph remembered his dream where his brother would bow down to him, and said unto them: 'You are spies. You came to see the nakedness of the land that you came to.'
And they said to him: 'No, my lord, we are only here to buy food, as your servants. We are are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are not spies.'
And he said unto them: 'No, you are here as spies.'
And they said: 'Thy servants are 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.'
And Joseph said unto them: 'You will prove to me that you are not spies. You will go nowhere until your youngest brother comes to me. Send of you to fetch your brother, and the rest of you will be put in prison, that your words may be proved, if there is any proof in what you say ... or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.'
And he put them all together in a ward for 3 days.
And Joseph said unto them the 3rd day: 'This will do, and live ... for I fear God. If you are true men, let one of your brother be bound in the house of your prison ... go, carry corn for the hunger of your houses. But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and you shall not die.'
And they said one to another: 'We are verily 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.'
And Reuben answered them: 'Did I not spoke unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold also his blood is required.'
They didn't know that Joseph could understand every word they say, because he was using an interpreter to speak to them.
And Joseph turned away from them and wept bitterly.
When he came back, he choose Simeon and bound him before his brother's eyes. He set the other brothers free.
The 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.
So they started their journey back to Canaan.
Along the way the brothers stopped to feed there donkeys, and as one of them open his sack to feed his donkey, he nearly got a heart attack!
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for famine was in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he 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.
Joseph immediately recognised his brothers, but made himself strange unto them.
He said unto them: 'From where are you?.' And they say: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'
Joseph remembered his dream where his brother would bow down to him, and said unto them: 'You are spies. You came to see the nakedness of the land that you came to.'
And they said to him: 'No, my lord, we are only here to buy food, as your servants. We are are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are not spies.'
And he said unto them: 'No, you are here as spies.'
And they said: 'Thy servants are 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.'
And Joseph said unto them: 'You will prove to me that you are not spies. You will go nowhere until your youngest brother comes to me. Send of you to fetch your brother, and the rest of you will be put in prison, that your words may be proved, if there is any proof in what you say ... or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.'
And he put them all together in a ward for 3 days.
And Joseph said unto them the 3rd day: 'This will do, and live ... for I fear God. If you are true men, let one of your brother be bound in the house of your prison ... go, carry corn for the hunger of your houses. But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and you shall not die.'
And they said one to another: 'We are verily 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.'
And Reuben answered them: 'Did I not spoke unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold also his blood is required.'
They didn't know that Joseph could understand every word they say, because he was using an interpreter to speak to them.
And Joseph turned away from them and wept bitterly.
When he came back, he choose Simeon and bound him before his brother's eyes. He set the other brothers free.
The 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.
So they started their journey back to Canaan.
Along the way the brothers stopped to feed there donkeys, and as one of them open his sack to feed his donkey, he nearly got a heart attack!
There in his sack were all his money, easy to see for anybody that would have looked.
He immediately alerted his brother and a great fear was in all their hearts. And they said to one another: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?'
The dreaded journey eventually ended as they reached their father, and then they told him the whole story: 'The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
And we said unto him that we are true men and not spies ... that we are 12 brothers, sons of our father; that one is not, and that the youngest stayed home with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man 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.
And bring your youngest brother to me, then I shall know that you are not spies, but true men. So shall I deliver your brother, and you shall freely travel the land.'
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.
Source: Genesis 42
He immediately alerted his brother and a great fear was in all their hearts. And they said to one another: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?'
The dreaded journey eventually ended as they reached their father, and then they told him the whole story: 'The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
And we said unto him that we are true men and not spies ... that we are 12 brothers, sons of our father; that one is not, and that the youngest stayed home with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man 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.
And bring your youngest brother to me, then I shall know that you are not spies, but true men. So shall I deliver your brother, and you shall freely travel the land.'
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.
Source: Genesis 42
