18 On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.
19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.
20 But you must bring me your youngest brother. Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die.” To this they agreed.
21 To one another, however, they said: “Truly we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. That is why this anguish has now come upon us.”
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.