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 God. 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.

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