Joseph Encounters His Brothers

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Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, and bowed their face to the groud before him.

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And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.

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(Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.

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And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

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But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

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Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.

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But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

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And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

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Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

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Send one of you which may fet your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

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So he put them in warde three dayes.

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