“No,” he insisted, “but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.”