Genesis

And Iakob, seeing that there is grain for sale in Aigyptos, said to his sons: "Why are you lazy?

Behold: I have heard that there is grain in Aigyptos. Go down there, and buy for us a small [amount] of foods, that we should live, and not die."

And the ten brothers of Ioseph went down to buy grain out of Aigyptos.

But Beniamin, the brother of Ioseph, [was] not sent with his brothers [by their father Iakob], for he said: "Lest at any time should come to pass to him an illness."

And the sons of Israél came to buy with the [ones] coming, for the famine was in [the] land of Chanaán.

And Ioseph was the ruler of the land. He sold to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Ioseph coming, did obeisance to him upon [their] face upon the ground.

And Ioseph seeing his brothers, recognized and alienated himself from them, and spoke to them hard [words]. And he said to them: "From what place have you come?" And they said: "From out of [the] land of Chanaán, to buy foods."

And Ioseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

And Ioseph remembered his dream, of which he himself saw. And he said to them: "You are spies to study the tracks of the land [in which] you have come."

But they said: "Not [so], lord. Your servants came to buy foods.

We are all sons of one man. We are peaceable. Your servants are not spies."

And he said to them: "Not [so]. [On the] contrary: You came to see the tracks of the land."

And they said: "We, your servants, are twelve brothers in [the] land of Chanaán. And, behold: Our younger [brother] is with our father today, but the other one is not."

And Ioseph said to them: "This is it that I have said to you, saying that you are spies.

In this you shall appear [to be], by the health of Pharao. No way should you depart from here if your younger brother should not come here.

Send one of you [back], and take your brother. But you shall be taken away until your words become apparent, if you are truthful or not. But if not, by the health of Pharao, assuredly you are spies."

And he put them in prison three days.

And he said to them on the third day: "You do this, and you shall live, for I fear the Theos:

If you are peaceable, let one of your brothers be held in prison. But you yourselves proceed, and take back the purchase of your provision.

And you lead your younger brother to me, and I will trust your words. But if not, you shall die." And they did so.

And each said to his brother: "Certainly, for we are in sins around our brother, for we disregarded the affliction of his soul when he besought us, and we listened not to him. And because of this, this affliction came upon us."

And Rouben, answering, said to them: "Did I not speak to you, saying: 'Do not wrong to the boy', and you did not listen to me? And behold: His blood is demanding back."

But they knew not that Ioseph understood them, for the translator was between them.

And turning away from them, Ioseph wept. And he came back, near to them, and spoke to them. And he took Symeon from them, and tied him before them.

And Ioseph gave charge to fill up their containers of grain, and to return their silver to each into his sackcloth, and to give them provisions for the way. And it became to them so.

And placing the grain upon their donkeys, they departed from there.

And one, [while] untying his bag to give fodder [to] his donkeys where they rested, saw his bundle of silver, for it was upon the mouth of his bag.

And he said to his brothers: "The silver was given back to me. And behold: This [was] in my bag." And it astonished their heart. And they were troubled, saying one towards another: "What [is] this [that] the Theos did to us?"

And they came to their father Iakob, into [the] land of Chanaán. And they reported to him all that had happened to them, saying:

"The human, the lord of the land, spoke words to us hard [words], and put us in prison as spying out the land.

And we said to him: 'We are peaceable. We are not spies.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is not, and the younger [is] today with our father in [the] land of Chanaán.'

And the human, the lord of the land, said to us: 'In this will I know that you are peaceable: You leave one of your brothers here with me. And having taken the purchase of the provision for your house, you go forth.

And you lead to me your younger brother, and I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are peaceable. And I will give back your brother to you. And you can trade in the land.' "

And it came to pass in their emptying their sackcloths, that there was a bundle of silver in each in their sackcloth. And they saw their bundles of silver, to them and their father, and they feared.

And their father Iakob said to them: "You are making me childless: Ioseph is not, Symeon is not, and you will take Beniamin? Upon me all these things happened."

And Rouben said to his father, saying: "The two sons of mine you may kill if I do not lead him to you. Give him into my hand, and I will lead him [back] to you."

But he said: "My son shall not go down with you, because his [full] brother died, and he alone is left behind. And [suppose] it shall come to pass [that] he is afflicted in the way whichever you go, then you will lead me in my old age with sorrow into Hades."

But the famine was severe upon the land.