19 If you are honest men, let one brother of you be kept in the house where you are imprisoned. but you go and bring bread, for the sake of the hunger of your families;

20 Bring your younger brother to me, that your words may be justified, and that you may not die. And so they did.

21 And they said to one another, 'As if we were being punished for the sin against our brother; we saw the suffering of his soul, when he begged us, but did not listen to [him]; For this reason this grief has befallen us.

22 And Reuben answered them, and said, 'Did I not say unto you, Sin not against the lad? but you did not listen; behold, his blood is being demanded.

23 And they did not know that Joseph understood; for there was an interpreter among them.

24 And [Joseph] departed from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke with them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

25 And Joseph commanded that their sacks should be filled with bread, and their money should be returned to each one in his bag, and that they should be given provisions for the journey. And so it was done with them.

26 And they put their bread upon their asses, and departed from thence.

27 And one of them opened his sack to give food to his ass at his lodging for the night, and saw his money in the opening of his sack,

28 And he said to his brethren, My money is restored; Here it is in my bag. And their hearts were troubled, and they said to one another with trembling, What has God done to us?

29 And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

30 The ruler of that land spoke harshly to us, and took us for spies of that land.

31 And we said to him, 'We are honest men; we were not spies;

32 We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is gone, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.