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Genesis
Chapter 41
53. And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were finished.
54. And the seven years of famine began, as Joseph had said, and there was famine in all the lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread.
55. When the entire land of Egypt hungered, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread, but Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; what he tells you, do."56. Now the famine spread over all the face of the land, and Joseph opened all [the storehouses] in which there was [grain], and he sold [it] to the Egyptians, and the famine intensified in the land of Egypt.
57. And all [the inhabitants of] the land came to Egypt to Joseph to purchase, for the famine had intensified in the entire land.
Chapter 42
1. Jacob saw that there was grain being sold in Egypt; so Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you appear satiated?"
2. And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain being sold in Egypt. Go down there and buy us [some] from there, so that we will live and not die."
3. So Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4. But Joseph's brother, Benjamin, Jacob did not send with his brothers, because, he said, "Lest misfortune befall him."
5. So the sons of Israel came to purchase among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6. Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; it was he who sold grain to the entire populace of the land, and Joseph's brothers came and prostrated themselves to him, with their faces to the ground.
7. And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but he made himself a stranger to them, and he spoke to them harshly, and he said to them, "Where do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to purchase food."
8. Now Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
9. And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
10. And they said to him, "No, my master, your servants have come to buy food.
11. We are all sons of one man. We are honest. Your servants were never spies."
12. But he said to them, "No! But you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
13. And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is gone."
14. And Joseph said to them, "This is just what I have spoken to you, saying, 'You are spies.'
15. With this you shall be tested: By Pharaoh's life, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. Send one of you and let him fetch your brother, and you will be imprisoned so that your words will be tested whether truth is with you, and if not, as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"
17. And he put them in prison for three days.
18. On the third day, Joseph said to them: "Do this and live I fear God.
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