12. And he answered them: "It is otherwise. You have come to examine the unguarded parts of this land."
13. But they said: "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father; the other is not living."
14. He said: "This is just as I have said. You are scouts.
15. I will now continue to put you to the test. By the health of Pharaoh, you will not depart from here, until your youngest brother arrives.
16. Send one of you and bring him. But you will be in chains, until what you have said is proven to be either true or false. Otherwise, by the health of Pharaoh, you are scouts."
17. Therefore, he delivered them into custody for three days.
18. Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: "Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.
19. If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses.
20. And bring your youngest brother to me, so that I may be able to test your words, and you may not die." They did as he had said,
21. and they spoke to one another: "We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he begged us and we would not listen. For that reason, this tribulation has come upon us."
22. And Reuben, one of them, said: "Did not I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted."
23. But they did not know that Joseph understood, because he was speaking to them through an interpreter.
24. And he turned himself away briefly and wept. And returning, he spoke to them.
25. And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he ordered his ministers to fill their sacks with wheat, and to replace each one's money in their sacks, and to give them, in addition, provisions for the way. And they did so.
26. Then, having loaded their donkeys with the grain, they set out.
27. And one of them, opening a sack to give his beast of burden fodder at the inn, looked upon the money at the sack's mouth,