18. Now Joseph said to them on 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; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine of your households,
20. and bring your youngest brother to me, so your words may be verified, and you will not die." And they did so.
21. Then they said to one another, "Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us."
22. Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
23. They did not know, however, that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them.
24. He turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them.
26. So they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed from there.
27. As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28. Then he said to his brothers, "My money has been returned, and behold, it is even in my sack." And their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
29. When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30. "The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
31. But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we are not spies.
32. We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.'
33. The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.