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.
32. We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.’
33. Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest. Leave one brother with me, and take food for the famine in your households and go.