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.
26. They loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from there.
27. As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed in the lodging place, he saw his money. It was in the mouth of his sack.
28. And he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned. Here it is in my sack!”Then their hearts sank, and they were afraid, saying to one another, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29. They came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30. “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and took us for spies of the country.