And the famine was on the face of all the land. And Joseph opened all which was in them, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was strong in the land of Egypt.
And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I shall know that you are honest; leave your one brother with me, and take and go for the famine of your houses.
And to his father he sent this: ten asses bearing the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing grain, and bread, and food for his father for the way.
But it is a people robbed and plundered; they shall all be snared in holes; they were hidden in houses of restraint. They were for plunder, and not one delivers; a prey, and not one says, Return!
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah and struck him, and they put him in the house of binding, in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made it into a house of imprisonment.