16. When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant in charge of his house, “Bring those men into my house. Kill an animal and prepare a meal. Those men will eat with me today at noon.”
17. The servant did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph’s house.
18. The brothers were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house and thought, “We were brought here because of the money that was put in our sacks on the first trip. He wants to attack us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”
19. So the brothers went to the servant in charge of Joseph’s house and spoke to him at the door of the house.
20. They said, “Master, we came here once before to buy food.
21. While we were going home, we stopped for the night and when we opened our sacks each of us found all his money in his sack. We brought that money with us to give it back to you.
22. And we have brought more money to pay for the food we want to buy this time. We don’t know who put that money in our sacks.”