A40 Joseph Brothers Go To Egypt To Buy Corn Poem by Simple Simon

To buy corn from Egypt,
His sons, Jacob sent;
Minimum food to provide
And starvation deaths to avoid.

He didn't send Benjamin,
For the main reason,
Something may happen to him,
When he went with them.

While Joseph recognized them,
They didn't recognize him.
He remembered the harm
What they did to him.

Joseph said, 'You're spies
From our enemy countries,
To find out our weakness
And inform your bosses.'

They replied, 'We're honest men,
And are Jacob's twelve sons.
The youngest is with our father.
One brother is no more.'

Joseph put them all in prison,
But to go back, he released one.
He said to him, 'Take this test
And bring here the youngest.'

On the third day, he released
All but one and said,
I'm a God-fearing man.
So, only one is in the prison.'

'The rest may take the food
For the starving people to feed.
Then bring here the youngest one,
To prove, you're innocent men.'

Joseph released all the men,
Except the one, Simeon.
Reuben said, 'We now suffer
For what we did to our brother.'