And ten of them went down to buy corn in E-gypt. But Ja-cob kept Ben-ja-min at home, for fear he would be lost to him as Jo-seph was lost.
JO-SEPH AND HIS BROTH-ERS.
When Ja-cob's ten sons came to the place where Jo-seph was, they bowed down to the ground. And Jo-seph knew them at once, but they did not know him, or give a thought to his dreams.
And Jo-seph spoke in a rough voice, and said, Whence come ye?
And they said, From the land of Ca-naan to buy food.
And he said, Ye are spies, and have come to see how poor the land is.
And they said to him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are we come. We are all one man's sons; and we are true men, and not spies.
But Jo-seph would have it that they were spies.
And they said, There were twelve of us, sons of one man. Young Ben-ja-min is at home with his fa-ther, and one is dead.