¹⁶Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

¹⁷So he put them in prison three days.

¹⁸And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

¹⁹If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

²⁰And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

²¹And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

²²And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

²³And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

²⁴And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.

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