When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from?” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him. Joseph remembered his dreams about them(A) and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness[a] of the land.”

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Footnotes

  1. 42:9 Lit nakedness, also in v. 12

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