⁷ “We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!”

¹⁴ Joseph was still in his palace when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him.

⁶ Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.

²⁶ When Joseph came home, they gave him the gifts they had brought him, then bowed low to the ground before him.

⁹ And he remembered the dreams he’d had about them many years before. He said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see how vulnerable our land has become.”

¹⁹ “My lord, previously you asked us, your servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’