How did Joseph's brothers not recognize him despite his extreme handsomeness, and did he meet them face to face, or was he in another place where they could not see him?
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Joseph recognized his brothers when he saw them, but they did not recognize him, because he had left them when he was young, and then they saw him after a period when he had become the minister and king of Egypt.
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