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Genesis 42:26-34 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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.

34. But bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.'"

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