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GenèseChapitre 42

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When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you keep staring at one another?"
He said, "Listen, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."
So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, for he thought, "Harm might come to him."
So the sons of Israel came to buy grain along with the others who came, for the famine had reached the land of Canaan.
Now Joseph was the governor of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke harshly. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "From the land of Canaan," they said, "to buy food."
Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see where the land lies exposed."
"No, my lord," they said. "Your servants have come to buy food.
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies."
But he said to them, "No, you have come to see where the land lies exposed."
They answered, "Your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father today, and one is no more."
But Joseph said to them, "It is just as I told you: you are spies.
This is how you will be tested: as surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Send one of your number to bring your brother; the rest of you will be held in prison, so that your words may be tested to see whether you are telling the truth. And if not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies."
And he put them all in custody for three days.
On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God.
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and carry grain back for your starving households.
They said to one another, "Surely we are guilty concerning our brother. We saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."
Reuben answered them, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was speaking with them through an interpreter.
He turned away from them and wept. Then he came back and spoke to them again; and he took Simeon from among them and had him bound before their eyes.
Joseph gave orders to fill their containers with grain, to put each man's silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
They loaded their grain on their donkeys and set out.
At the place where they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder, and he saw his silver lying there in the mouth of his sack.
"My silver has been put back," he said to his brothers. "Here it is in my sack!" Their hearts sank, and trembling they turned to one another and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"
When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them:
"The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the country.
But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies.
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.'
Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, 'This is how I will know whether you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, take grain for your starving households, and go.
But bring your youngest brother to me, so I may know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you may trade in the land.'"
As they emptied their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the pouches of silver, they were afraid.
Their father Jacob said to them, "You are robbing me of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. Everything is against me!"
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will return him to you."
But Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. His brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are making, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow." [Footnote: Hebrew Sheol, the place of the dead.]
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