5And the sons of Israel came among those who sought to buy grain; for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6And Joseph was the governor over the land, and it was he that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the earth. 7And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said, “Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.” 8And while Joseph knew his brothers, they did not know him. 9And Joseph remembered the dreams he had of them, and said, “You are spies who have come to see where our land is unprotected”. 10And they said, “No, my lord, but we have come to buy food. 11We are all sons of one man; we are true men, and not spies”. 12And he said to them, “No, but you have come to see the vulnerabilities of the land”. 13And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not (no longer living)”. 14And Joseph said to them, “It is just as I said, ‘You are spies’: 15Here is how you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, until your words are proven - whether there is any truth in you: or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies”. 17And he put them all in prison for three days.

18And on the third day, Joseph said to them, “This do, and live; for I fear God: 19If you are true men, let one of your brothers be kept in the prison: go you, carry grain for the famine of your houses: 20But bring your youngest brother to me; to verify your words, and you shall not die”. 21And they said one to another, “We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore, this distress has come upon us”. 22And Reuben said to them, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the child’; and you would not hear? Therefore, his blood is now required”. 23And they did not know that Joseph understood their discussion; for he had spoken to them by an interpreter. 24And he turned his back to them, and wept; and then turned back to them, and spoke with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

25Then Joseph commanded to have their sacks filled with grain, and to restore (return) every man's money back into his sack, and to give them provisions for the trip home. 26And they loaded their donkeys with the grain, and departed. 27And when one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at an inn, he discovered his money; for it was in his sack's mouth. 28And he said to his brothers, “My money is restored: it is here in my sack”: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, “What is this that God has done to us?”

29And they arrived in the land of Canaan and came to Jacob, their father, and told him all that befell them: 30“The man who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31And we told him, “We are true men; we are not spies: 32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not (dead), and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan”. 33And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘Hereby shall I know that you are true men: leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: 34And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you; are true men: then I will free your brother, and you shall do business in the land.’”

35And as they emptied their sacks, they found that every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 36And Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved of my children; Joseph is dead, and Simeon is not here, and you want to take Benjamin away: all these things are against me”. 37And Reuben said to his father, “Slay my two sons, if I do not bring Simeon to you: put Benjamin into my hand, and I will bring him back to you again”. 38And Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befalls him along the way, then you shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to the grave (sheol)”.