5. So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.
6. Now Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land; and Joseph's [half] brothers came and bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground.
7. Joseph saw his brethren and he recognized them, but he treated them as if he were a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. He said, Where do you come from? And they replied, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8. Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.
9. And Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them and said to them, You are spies and with unfriendly purpose you have come to observe [secretly] the nakedness of the land.
10. But they said to him, No, my lord, but your servants have come [only] to buy food.
11. We are all one man's sons; we are true men; your servants are not spies.
12. And he said to them, No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.
13. But they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest is today with our father, and one is not.
14. And Joseph said to them, It is as I said to you, You are spies.
15. You shall be proved by this test: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go away from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved whether there is any truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh you certainly are spies.
17. Then he put them all in custody for three days.
18. And Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live! I reverence and fear God.