24. Joseph left them and began to cry. When he was able to speak again, he came back, picked out Simeon, and had him tied up in front of them.
25. Joseph gave orders to fill his brothers' packs with corn, to put each man's money back in his sack, and to give them food for the journey. This was done.
26. The brothers loaded their donkeys with the corn they had bought, and then they left.
27. At the place where they spent the night, one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and found his money at the top of the sack.
28. “My money has been returned to me,” he called to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack!” Their hearts sank, and in fear they asked one another, “What has God done to us?”
29. When they came to their father Jacob in Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:
30. “The governor of Egypt spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying against his country.
31. ‘We are not spies,’ we answered, ‘we are honest men.