Joseph's brethren come to Egypt for corn

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Ge 42:1: Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Ge 42:2: And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Ge 42:3: And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Ge 42:4: But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Ge 42:5: And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Ge 42:6: And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
Ge 42:7: And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Ge 42:8: And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Ge 42:9: And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Ge 42:10: And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Ge 42:11: We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Ge 42:12: And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Ge 42:13: And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Ge 42:14: And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Ge 42:15: Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.