01:042:019 If 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:
01:042:020 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words
be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
01:042:021 And they said one to another, We 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.
01:042:022 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
01:042:023 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
unto them by an interpreter.
01:042:024 And 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.
01:042:025 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
the way: and thus did he unto them.
01:042:026 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed
thence.
01:042:027 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender
in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's
mouth.
01:042:028 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and,
lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were
afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
01:042:029 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of
Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
01:042:030 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us,
and took us for spies of the country.
01:042:031 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
01:042:032 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and
the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
01:042:033 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby
shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with
me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
01:042:034 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know
that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you
your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
01:042:035 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,
behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they
and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
01:042:036 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved
of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take
Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
01:042:037 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons,
if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring
him to thee again.
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