¹ When Yaakov (Jacob) saw that there was grain in <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Mitsrayim" title="The Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning 'two straits' or 'two boundaries.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham and ancestor of the Egyptians. The land of bondage for the children of Yash...">Mitsrayim (Egypt), he asked his sons, "Why are you just standing around looking at each other?" ² He said, "Look, I’ve heard there is grain in <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Mitsrayim" title="The Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning 'two straits' or 'two boundaries.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham and ancestor of the Egyptians. The land of bondage for the children of Yash...">Mitsrayim. Go down there and buy some for us so that we can stay alive and not die." ³ So the ten brothers of Yoseph (Joseph) went down to buy grain from <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Mitsrayim" title="The Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning 'two straits' or 'two boundaries.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham and ancestor of the Egyptians. The land of bondage for the children of Yash...">Mitsrayim. ⁴ But Yaakov did not send Yoseph’s brother Binyamin (Benjamin) with them, because he said, "I’m afraid that some harm might happen to him." ⁶ Since Yoseph was the governor of the land, he was the one selling grain to all the people. When Yoseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground. ⁷ When Yoseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he acted like a stranger and spoke harshly to them. "Where did you come from?" he asked. They replied, "From the land of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Kena'an" title="Means 'lowland' or 'merchant.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham, grandson of Nuach. Ancestor of the Canaanite nations who occupied the land promised to Yashar'el. Pronounced: Keh...">Kena'an (Canaan) to buy food." ⁸ Even though Yoseph recognized his brothers, they didn't recognize him. ⁹ Yoseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them and said to them, "You’re spies! You’ve come to see where our land is unprotected." ¹⁸ On the third day, Yoseph said to them, "Do this and you’ll live, because I fear Yahuah (Yah):