19 If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses.
20 And bring your youngest brother to me, so that I may be able to test your words, and you may not die.' They did as he had said,
21 and they spoke to one another: 'We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he begged us and we would not listen. For that reason, this tribulation has come upon us.'
22 And Reuben, one of them, said: 'Did not I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted.'
23 But they did not know that Joseph understood, because he was speaking to them through an interpreter.
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