19. If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.
20. But bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you shall live. And they did so.
21. And they said one to another, We are truly guilty about our brother, for we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he begged us [to let him go], and we would not hear. So this distress and difficulty has come upon us.
22. Reuben answered them, Did I not tell you, Do not sin against the boy, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is required [of us].
23. But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter.
24. And he turned away from them and wept; then he returned to them and talked with them, and took from them Simeon and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then [privately] Joseph commanded that their sacks be filled with grain, every man's money be restored to his sack, and provisions be given to them for the journey. And this was done for them.
26. They loaded their donkeys with grain and left.
27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he caught sight of his money; for behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28. And he said to his brothers, My money is restored! Here it is in my sack! And their hearts failed them and they were afraid and turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?
29. When they came to Jacob their father in Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,
30. The man who is the lord of the land spoke roughly to us and took us for spies of the country.