Genesis 42:9-26

Young's Literal Translation

⁹ and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.'

¹⁰ And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

¹¹ we [are] all of us sons of one man, we [are] right men; thy servants have not been spies;'

¹² and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

¹³ and they say, `Thy servants [are] twelve brethren; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one [is] with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

¹⁴ And Joseph saith unto them, `This [is] that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies,

¹⁵ by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither;

¹⁶ send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye [are] spies;'

¹⁷ and he removeth them unto charge three days.

¹⁸ And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

¹⁹ if ye [are] right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn [for] the famine of your houses,

²⁰ and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

²¹ And they say one unto another, `Verily we [are] guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

²² And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.'

²³ And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter [is] between them;

²⁴ and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.

²⁵ And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels [with] corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so.

²⁶ And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence,