Genesis 42:14–24

¹⁴And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: ¹⁵Hereby ye shall be proved: ^kBy the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. ¹⁶Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be ^†kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. ¹⁷And he ^†put them all together into ward three days. ¹⁸And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; ^lfor I fear God: ¹⁹If ye be 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: ²⁰But ^mbring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. ²¹And they said one to another, ⁿWe 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. ²²And Reuben answered them, saying, ^oSpake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is ^prequired. ²³And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for ^†he spake unto them by ^qan interpreter. ²⁴And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.