21. Then each said to his brother, “Surely we are guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us.”
22. Then Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought.”
23. Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
24. And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them.
25. Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.
26. Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went away from there.
27. And one of them later opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money—behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28. And he said to his brothers, “My money was returned and moreover, behold, it is in my sack!” Then their hearts failed them and each of them trembled and said, “What is this God has done to us?”
29. And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything that had happened to them, saying,
30. “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the land.
31. But we said to him, ‘We are honest; we are not spies.