3. Ten of Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.
4. But Jacob did not send Joseph's younger brother Benjamin with them; he was afraid that something might happen to him.
5. So Jacob's sons joined others from Canaan who were going to Egypt because of the terrible famine.
6. Since Joseph was governor of Egypt and in charge of selling grain, his brothers came to him and bowed with their faces to the ground.
9. Joseph remembered what he had dreamed about them and said, “You're spies! You've come here to find out where our country is weak.”
10. “No sir,” they replied. “We're your servants, and we have only come to buy grain.
11. We're honest men, and we come from the same family—we're not spies.”