Joseph's Brothers Bow Down to Him Twice

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt,
he said to his sons,
"Why do you just keep looking at each other?
He continued,
"I have heard that there is grain in Egypt.
Go down there and buy some for us,
so that we may live and not die."

Now Joseph was the governor of the land,
the one who sold grain to all its people.
So when Joseph's brothers arrived,
they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Now the famine was still severe in the land.
So when they had eaten all the grain
they had brought with them from Egypt,
their father said to them,
"Go back and buy us a little more food."

When Joseph came home,
they presented to him
the gifts they had brought into the house,
and the bowed down before him to the ground.

(Genesis 42:1-2, 6; 43:1-2, 26)