Joseph Encounters His Brothers

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and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him--face to the earth.

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And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?' and they say, `From the land of Canaan--to buy food.'

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And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,

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and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'

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And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

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we are all of us sons of one man, we are right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

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and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

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and they say, `Thy servants are twelve brethren; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one is with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

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And Joseph saith unto them, `This is that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye are spies,

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by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this--except by your young brother coming hither;

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send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not--Pharaoh liveth! surely ye are spies;'

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and he removeth them unto charge three days.

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