1Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?
2And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
3So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.
5And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
6Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.
7And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.
