GE-42: 17 And he put them all together into ward three days. GE-42: 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God: GE-42: 19 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: GE-42: 20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. GE-42: 21 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. GE-42: 22 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. GE-42: 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them] ; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. GE-42: 24 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. GE-42: 25 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. GE-42: 26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. GE-42: 27 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. GE-42: 28 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? GE-42: 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, GE-42: 30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. GE-42: 31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men] ; we are no spies: GE-42: 32 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. GE-42: 33 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: GE-42: 34 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 traffic in the land. GE-42: 35 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. GE-42: 36 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. GE-42: 37 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. GE-42: 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. GE-43: 1 And the famine [was] sore in the land. GE-43: 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. GE-43: 3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. GE-43: 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: GE-43: 5 But if thou wilt not send [him] , we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. GE-43: 6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye [so] ill with me, [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? GE-43: 7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? GE-43: 8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little ones. GE-43: 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: GE-43: 10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.