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.
19. If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.
20. But bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you shall live. And they did so.