Genesis 42:1–8

Now when aJacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 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 blive, and not die. 3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, cJoseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, dLest peradventure mischief befall him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 And Joseph was the governor eover the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and fbowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. 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. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.