12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
14. He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
17. So he put them in prison three days.
18. And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
19. If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
20. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
21. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
22. And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.
23. And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.