26. they each loaded the grain on their donkeys and left.
27. When they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey, and straight away he saw his money bag.
28. “Here's my money!” he told his brothers. “Right here in my sack.”They were trembling with fear as they stared at one another and asked themselves, “What has God done to us?”
29. When they returned to the land of Canaan, they told their father Jacob everything that had happened to them:
30. The governor of Egypt was rude and treated us like spies.
31. But we told him, “We're honest men, not spies.
32. We come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and the other is dead.”
33. Then the governor of Egypt told us, “I'll find out if you really are honest. Leave one of your brothers here with me, while you take the grain to your starving families.
34. But bring your youngest brother to me, so I can be certain that you are honest men and not spies. After that, I'll let your other brother go free, and you can stay here and trade.”
35. When the brothers started emptying their sacks of grain, they found their money bags in them. They were frightened, and so was their father Jacob,
36. who said, “You have already taken my sons Joseph and Simeon from me. And now you want to take away Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
37. Reuben spoke up, “Father, if I don't bring Benjamin back, you can kill both of my sons. Trust me with him, and I will bring him back.”