20. and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.
21. Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is come upon us.
22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? But ye did not hearken; and now behold, his blood also is required.
23. And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
24. And he turned away from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
25. And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. And thus did they to them.
26. And they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed thence.
27. And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28. And he said to his brethren, My money is returned to me, and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us?
29. And they came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,
30. The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
31. And we said to him, We are honest; we are not spies:
32. we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33. And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren with me, and take for the hunger of your households, and go,