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.
3. So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
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,
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.
8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
10. But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
14. He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
17. So he put them in prison three days.
18. And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
19. If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
20. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
21. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.