15. Here is how you will be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you will not leave here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested, whether there be any truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are surely spies.”
17. He put them all together in custody for three days.
18. Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God.
19. If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison house. The rest of you go and carry grain for the famine of your households.
20. Nevertheless, bring your youngest brother to me so that your words may be verified and you shall not die.” And they did so.
21. Then they said one to another, “We are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. Therefore, this distress has come upon us.”
22. Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore, his blood is now required of us.”
23. They did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter.
24. He turned himself away from them and wept, but then turned back to them again and spoke with them. Then he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
25. Joseph then gave the command to fill their sacks with grain and to restore every man’s money to his sack and to give them provisions for the way. And it was done for them.