Genesis 42:7-30

7And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food.

8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.

9And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed places of the land ye are come.

10And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food are thy servants come.

11We are all one man's sons; we are honest: thy servants are not spies.

12And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of the land are ye come.

13And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

14And Joseph said to them, That is it that I have spoken to you, saying, Ye are spies.

15By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh lives, ye shall not go forth hence, unless your youngest brother come hither!

16Send one of you, that he may fetch your brother, but ye shall be imprisoned, and your words shall be put to the proof, whether the truth is in you; and if not, as Pharaoh lives, ye are spies.

17And he put them in custody three days.

18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear 1God.

19If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;

20and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.

21Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is come upon us.

22And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? But ye did not hearken; and now behold, his blood also is required.

23And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.

24And he turned away from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

25And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. And thus did they to them.

26And they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed thence.

27And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

28And he said to his brethren, My money is returned [to me], and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this [that] 2God has done to us?

29And they came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,

30The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.