²⁰ “Sir,” they said, “we came to Egypt once before to buy food.

³ So Joseph’s ten older brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain.

¹⁰ “No, my lord!” they exclaimed. “Your servants have simply come to buy food.

⁷ “The man kept asking us questions about our family,” they replied. “He asked, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered his questions. How could we know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

³ But Judah said, “The man was serious when he warned us, ‘You won’t see my face again unless your brother is with you.’

³⁵ As they emptied out their sacks, there in each man’s sack was the bag of money he had paid for the grain! The brothers and their father were terrified when they saw the bags of money.

²⁷ But when they stopped for the night and one of them opened his sack to get grain for his donkey, he found his money in the top of his sack.