Genesis 42:7-20 When Ioseph sawe hys brethren, he knewe them: and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, and spake roughly vnto them, sayinge: Whence come ye? They answered: out of the lande of Canaan, to bye vytayle.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ When Ioseph sawe hys brethren, he knewe them: and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, and spake roughly vnto them, sayinge: Whence come ye? They answered: out of the lande of Canaan, to bye vytayle. ⁸ And Ioseph knewe hys brethren, but they knewe not hym. ⁹ And Ioseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them, and sayd vnto them: ye are spies, and to se where the lande is weake is youre comynge. ¹⁰ And they sayd vnto him: nay my Lorde: but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come. ¹¹ We are all one mans sonnes, and meane truly, and thy seruauntes are no spyes. ¹² And he sayd vnto them agayne, nay, but euen to se where the lande is weake, is youre comynge. ¹³ And they sayde: we thy seruauntes are .xii. brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan. And beholde, the yongest is thys daye wyth oure father, and one, no man woteth where he is. ¹⁴ And Ioseph sayde vnto them, that is it that I spake vnto you, sayinge: ye are spyes. ¹⁵ Here by ye shall be proued. By the lyfe of Pharao, ye shall not goo hence, excepte youre yongest brother come hyther. ¹⁶ Sende out one of you whych maye fett youre brother, & ye shalbe kepte in presone, that youre wordes maye be proued, whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao, ye are but spies. ¹⁷ And he put them in warde thre dayes. ¹⁸ And Ioseph sayde vnto them the thryde daye: Thys doo and lyue, for I feare God. ¹⁹ If ye meane no hurte, let one of youre brethren be bounde in the house of youre preson, and goo ye brynge the necessarye foode vnto youre housholdes, ²⁰ but brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that your wordes maye be tryed, and that ye dye not. And they dyd so.