Quotes About Brothers

“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ëLet us go to Dothan.í” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.

So ten of Josephís brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each manís silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.í

So when Jacobís sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

The man did as Joseph had commanded and took the brothers to Josephís house.

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Josephís house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

So they approached Josephís steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”

Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Josephís arrival at noon.