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,
28. and he said to his brothers: "My money has returned to me. See, it is held in the sack." And they were astonished and troubled, and they said to one another, "What is this that God has done to us?"
29. And they went to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, and they explained to him all the things that had befallen them, saying:
30. "The lord of the land spoke harshly to us, and he considered us to be scouts of the province.
31. And we answered him: 'We are peaceful, and we do not intend any treachery.