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.