Genesis 42:29–38

²⁹And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying, ³⁰‘The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land; ³¹and we say unto him, We are right men, we have not been spies, ³²we are twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one is to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

³³‘And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye are right men—one of your brethren leave with me, and for the famine of your houses take ye and go, ³⁴and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye are not spies, but ye are right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.’ ³⁵And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man’s silver is in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid; ³⁶and Jacob their father saith unto them, ‘Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take—against me have been all these.’ ³⁷And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, ‘My two sons thou dost put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I—I bring him back unto thee;’ ³⁸and he saith, ‘My son doth not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.’

Chapter 43