15. By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother shall come hither.
16. Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there is any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17. And he put them all together into custody three days.
18. And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19. If ye are true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20. But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21. And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the young man; and ye would not hear? therefore behold also his blood is required.
23. And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.
24. And he turned himself away from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he to them.
26. And they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money: for behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28. And he said to his brethren, My money is restored; and see it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done to us?
29. And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell them, saying,
30. The man who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
31. And we said to him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32. We are twelve brethren, sons of our father: one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.