34 But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men.(A) Then I will give your brother back to you,(B) and you can trade[a] in the land.(C)’”

35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his pouch of silver!(D) When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.(E) 36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more,(F) and now you want to take Benjamin.(G) Everything is against me!(H)

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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 traffick in the land.

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.

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.

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