22. Then Reuben responded, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do no wrong to the boy’? But you would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”
23. They did not know, of course, that Joseph understood what they said, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
24. But turning away from them, he wept. When he was able to speak to them again, he took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then Joseph gave orders to have their containers filled with grain, their money replaced in each one’s sack, and provisions given them for their journey. After this had been done for them,
26. they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed.