American Standard Version

Genesis 42:20-31 American Standard Version (ASV)

20. and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

21. And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

23. And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

24. And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

25. Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them.

26. And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed thence.

27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

28. And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God hath done unto us?

29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,

30. The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

31. And we said unto him, We are true men; and we are no spies: