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.