¹² and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;

¹ And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, `Why do you look at each other?'

² he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

³ and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,

⁴ and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, `Lest mischief meet him.'

⁵ And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

⁶ and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him -- face to the earth.

⁷ And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan -- to buy food.'

⁸ And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,

⁹ and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye `are' spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'

¹⁰ And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

¹¹ we `are' all of us sons of one man, we `are' right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

¹² and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

¹³ and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

¹⁴ And Joseph saith unto them, `This `is' that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye `are' spies,

¹⁵ by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither;

¹⁶ send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye `are' spies;'

¹⁷ and he removeth them unto charge three days.

¹⁸ And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

¹⁹ if ye `are' right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn `for' the famine of your houses,

²⁰ and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

²¹ And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

²² And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.'

²³ And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter `is' between them;

²⁴ and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.

² and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'