Genesis 42:14–24

¹⁴And Joseph saith unto them, ‘This is that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye are spies, ¹⁵by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this—except by your young brother coming hither; ¹⁶send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not—Pharaoh liveth! surely ye are spies;’ ¹⁷and he removeth them unto charge three days. ¹⁸And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, ‘This do and live; God I fear! ¹⁹if ye are right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn for the famine of your houses, ²⁰and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;’ and they do so.

²¹And they say one unto another, ‘Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.’ ²²And Reuben answereth them, saying, ‘Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.’ ²³And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter is between them; ²⁴and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.