29. And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying,
30. `The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;
31. and we say unto him, We [are] right men, we have not been spies,
32. we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one [is] to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33. `And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye [are] right men--one of your brethren leave with me, and [for] the famine of your houses take ye and go,
34. and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye [are] not spies, but ye [are] right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.'
35. And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man's silver [is] in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid;
36. and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take--against me have been all these.'
37. And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, `My two sons thou dost put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I--I bring him back unto thee;'
38. and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother [is] dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'