Genesis 42:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ and bring your youngest brother to me. Thus your words will be verified, and you shall not die.’ And they agreed to do so. ²¹ They said to one another, ‘Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.’ ²² Then Reuben answered them, ‘Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.’