Joseph: "If it be true that ye came hither to buy corn,
why is it that each one of you entered the city by a separate
gate?"[207]

The brethren: "We are ALL the sons of one man in the
land of Canaan, and he bade us not enter a city together by
the same gate, that we attract not the attention of the people
of the place." Unconsciously they had spoken as seers, for
the word ALL included Joseph as one of their number.[208]

Joseph: "Verily, ye are spies! All the people that come
to buy corn return home without delay, but ye have lingered
here three days, without making any purchases, and all the
time you have been gadding about in the disreputable parts