Genesis Chapter 42
Jacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt. Their treatment by
Joseph.
42:1. And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
42:2. I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
42:3. So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
42:4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
42:5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
42:6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
42:7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
42:8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.