1   Then ^note Iaakob saw that there was ^note foode in Egypt, and Iaakob said vnto his sonnes, Why ^note gaze ye one vpon an other?

2   And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, ^note Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

3   ¶2; So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.

4   But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should ^note befall him.

5   And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

6   Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, & bowed their face to the gro&ubar;d before him.

7   And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and ^note made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.

8   (Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.

9   And Ioseph remembred the ^note dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the ^note weaknesse of the land.

10   But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

11   Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.

12   But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

13   And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one ^note is not.

14   Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

15   Hereby ye shall be proued: ^note by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

16   Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

Simeon is imprisoned.

17   So he put them in warde three dayes.

18   Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I ^note feare God.

19   If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

20    ^noteBut bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

21   ¶2; And they said one to another, ^note We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

22   And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, ^note Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his ^note blood is now required.

23   (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he ^note spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

24   Then he turned from them, and ^note wept, & turned to them againe, & communed with them, and tooke Simeon from among them, & bounde him before their eyes.

25   ¶2; So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.

26   And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

27   And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.

28   Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke. And their heart ^note fayled them, and they were ^note astonished, and sayde one to another, What is this, that God hath done vnto vs?

29   ¶2; And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

30   The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

31   And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.

32   We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one ^note is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

33   Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

34   And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

35   ¶2; And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.

36   Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, & Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things ^note are against ^note me.

37   Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe. Beniamin goeth with his brethren.

38   But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.

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