New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 42:26-32 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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?”

29. When they got back to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

30. “The man who is lord of the land,” they said, “spoke to us harshly and put us in custody on the grounds that we were spying on the land.

31. But we said to him: ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.

32. We are twelve brothers, sons of the same father; but one is no more, and the youngest one is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’