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• And Joseph, as the famine grew daily worse everywhere, opened the storehouses and made the Egyptians, too, buy their corn, for they were as hungry as the rest. (Genesis 41, 56)

• So ten of Joseph’s brethren went down into Egypt to buy corn there; (Genesis 42, 3)

• Egypt was under the control of Joseph: it was at his discretion that corn was sold to foreign nations. And when his brethren came and did him reverence, (Genesis 42, 6)

• and his mind went back to the dreams he had had, long ago. You are spies, he told them; you have come to find out where our country’s defences are weak. (Genesis 42, 9)

• All this Joseph understood, although they did not suspect it (he always spoke to them through an interpreter); (Genesis 42, 23)

• As for their father Jacob, he told them, You have made a childless man of me; Joseph is dead, Simeon a prisoner, and you would rob me of Benjamin too; it is I who have to bear all this trouble. (Genesis 42, 36)

• With such gifts, and a double amount of money, they took Benjamin down into Egypt, and presented themselves before Joseph. (Genesis 43, 15)

• The steward did as he was bidden, taking them all to Joseph’s house, (Genesis 43, 17)

• There then they waited, with the gifts ready, till Joseph should come home at noon; they had been told that they would be his guests. (Genesis 43, 25)

• And as soon as Joseph entered his house, they offered him the gifts they carried, and bowed down to earth. (Genesis 43, 26)

• Then Joseph looked round, and saw Benjamin there, his own mother’s son; Is this, he asked, the younger brother you told me of? And he added, God be merciful to thee, my son. (Genesis 43, 29)

• So food was brought, with separate portions for Joseph, for his brethren, and for the Egyptians who kept them company; the Egyptians are not allowed to eat with men of Hebrew blood, and would think it foul disgrace to share a meal with them. (Genesis 43, 32)