Joseph Encounters His Brothers

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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,

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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.

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And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.

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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.

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But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

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We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

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And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

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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.

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He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.

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I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

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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.

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So he put them in prison three days.

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