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Joseph's Brothers Go to Egypt

42. When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you just looking at each other?" He continued, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die." Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him. So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain for tthe famine was in the land of Canaan also. 

  Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their face to the ground. As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he reconized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "From the land of Canaan,"they replied, "to buy food." Although Joseph reconized his brothers, they did not reconized him. Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, "You are spies! you have come to see where our land is unprotected.

  "No, my Lord," they answered. "Your servants have come to buy food. We are all the sons of one man. Your servanta honest men, not spices." "No!" he said them. "You have come to see where our our land is unprotected." But they replied, "Your servants were twelves brothers, the son of one man, who live in the Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more." 

  Joseph said to them "It is just as I told you: You are spies! And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. Send one of your member to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!" And he put them all in custody for three days. 

  On the third day, Joseph said to them, 'Do this and you will live, for I fear God: If you are honest man, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households. But you must bring your youngst brother to me, so that your words may be verified and you may not die." This they proceeded to do. They said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come upon us." 

  Reuben replied, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against boy? But you wouldn't listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood." They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using s interpreter. He turned away from them and began to weep, but then turned back and spoke to them again. He had simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes. Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each mans silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them, they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left. 

  At the place where they stopped for the night one of them open his sack to gett feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack, "My silver has been returned," he said to his brothers, "Here it is in my sack." Their hearts sank and they returned to each other trembling and said "What is this that God has done to us?" When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said "The man who is lord over the land spoke harsharly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land. But we said to him, "We are honest man; we are not spies. We were twelves brothers, son of one father. One is no more, and the younrest is now with our father in Canaan."

   Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, "This is how I will know whether you are honest men; Leave one of your brother here with me, and took food for your starving households and go, But your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest man. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land. 

   As they were emptying theirs sacks, there in each man's sack was in pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened. Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me.!" 

   Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back." But Jacpb said, "My son will not go down there with you, his brother is dead and he is only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray brain down to the grave in sorrow."