1. During the famine in Canaan, Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt. So he said to his sons, “Why are you sitting here doing nothing?
2. I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go there and buy grain for us so that we will live and not die!”
3. So ten of Joseph’s brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.
23-24. Joseph was using an interpreter to talk to his brothers, so the brothers did not know that he understood their language. He heard and understood everything they said, and that made him want to cry. So he turned away and left the room. When he came back, he took one of the brothers, Simeon, and tied him up while the others watched.