22. Then Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought.”
23. Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
24. And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them.
25. Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.
26. Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went away from there.
27. And one of them later opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money—behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28. And he said to his brothers, “My money was returned and moreover, behold, it is in my sack!” Then their hearts failed them and each of them trembled and said, “What is this God has done to us?”
29. And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything that had happened to them, saying,
30. “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the land.
31. But we said to him, ‘We are honest; we are not spies.
32. We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.’
33. Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest. Leave one brother with me, and take food for the famine in your households and go.
34. And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies but you are honest. And I will give your brother back to you, and you will trade in the land.’ ”
35. And it happened that when they emptied their sacks, behold, each one’s pouch of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed.