Genesis 42:7-20

Tyndale(i) 7 When Ioseph sawe his brethern he knewe them: But made straunge vnto them and spake rughly vnto them saynge: Whence come ye? and they sayde: out of the lande of Canaan to bye vitayle. 8 Ioseph knewe his brethern but they knewe not him. 9 And Ioseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them and sayde vnto them: ye are spies and to se where the lande is weake is youre comynge. 10 And they sayde vnto him: nay my lorde: but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come. 11 We are all one mans sonnes and meane truely and thy seruauntes are no spies. 12 And he sayde vnto them: nay verely but euen to se where the land is weake is youre comynge. 13 And they sayde: we thi seruauntes are .xij. brethern the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan. The yongest is yet with oure father and one no man woteth where he is. 14 Ioseph sayde vnto them that is it that I sayde vnto you that ye are surelye spies. 15 Here by ye shall be proued. For by the lyfe of Pharao ye shall not goo hence vntyll youre yongest brother be come hither. 16 Sende therfore one off you and lett him fett youre brother and ye shalbe in preason in the meane season. And thereby shall youre wordes 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 the the thryd daye: This doo and lyue for I feare Gode 19 Yf ye meane no hurte let one of youre brethern be bounde in the preason and goo ye and brynge the necessarie foode vnto youre housholdes 20 and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that youre wordes maye be beleved ad that ye dye not And they did so.