17. Doing as Joseph had ordered, the steward conducted the men to Joseph’s house.
18. But they became apprehensive when they were led to his house. “It must be,” they thought, “on account of the money put back in our bags the first time, that we are taken inside—in order to attack us and take our donkeys and seize us as slaves.”
19. So they went up to Joseph’s steward and talked to him at the entrance of the house.
20. “If you please, sir,” they said, “we came down here once before to buy food.