⁷ When Joseph got to see his brothers, he at once recognized them, but he made himself unrecognizable to them.+ So he spoke harshly with them and said to them: “Where have YOU come from?” to which they said: “From the land of Ca′naan to buy foodstuffs.”+

¹⁰ At this Na′bal answered David’s servants and said: “Who is David,+ and who is the son of Jes′se? Nowadays the servants that are breaking away, each one from before his master,* have become many.+

⁴ “Hear this, YOU men snapping at someone poor,+ even in order to cause the meek ones* of the earth to cease,+