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 corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus was it done unto them.
26. And they laded their asses with their corn, 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; we are no spies: