20. But you must bring me your youngest brother. Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die.” To this they agreed.
21. To one another, however, they said: “Truly we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. That is why this anguish has now come upon us.”
22. Then Reuben responded, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do no wrong to the boy’? But you would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”
23. They did not know, of course, that Joseph understood what they said, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
24. But turning away from them, he wept. When he was able to speak to them again, he took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then Joseph gave orders to have their containers filled with grain, their money replaced in each one’s sack, and provisions given them for their journey. After this had been done for them,
26. they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed.
27. At the night encampment, when one of them opened his bag to give his donkey some fodder, he saw his money there in the mouth of his bag.
28. He cried out to his brothers, “My money has been returned! Here it is in my bag!” At that their hearts sank. Trembling, they asked one another, “What is this that God has done to us?”