Geneva(i)
1 Then Iaakob saw that there was foode in Egypt, and Iaakob said vnto his sonnes, Why gaze ye one vpon an other?
2 And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, and bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.
3 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 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, and bowed their face to the groud before him.
7 And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and 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 dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the 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 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: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.
16 Send one of you which may fet your brother, and 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.
17 So he put them in warde three dayes.
18 Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I 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 But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.
21 And they said one to another, 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, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.
23 (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)
24 Then he turned from them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke Simeon from among them, and bounde him before their eyes.