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THE. CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EG T 71
JOS PH CH G HIS BROTH S WITH BEING SPIES
father and their youngest brother whom they had left at home. They told him about Joseph, another brother, who was dead. They said that they had come to Egypt to buy grain because of the famine in Chanaan.
But Joseph pretended not to believe them. He cast them all into prison and kept them there for three days, and then released all but one. Simeon, he said, would have to remain in prison until the others brought to him, as a proof of their good intentions, the brother whom they had left at home.
The brothers spoke among themselves. They ad- Re ­ mitted that they deserved to be treated in this manner =·s in punishment for their sin against their brother Jo- br