23. They did not realise that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.
24. He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
25. Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man’s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,
26. they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
27. At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
28. ‘My silver has been returned,’ he said to his brothers. ‘Here it is in my sack.’Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, ‘What is this that God has done to us?’
29. When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,
30. ‘The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land.
31. But we said to him, “We are honest men; we are not spies.
32. We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.”