ed as if they did not tell the
truth.

He said that to prove themselves true men one of them should go home
and bring the youngest brother, and the others should be kept in prison
until they returned; and he put them all in prison.

After three days, he said one might stay while the others took the
wheat home to their families, but that they must surely come back and
bring the boy with them.

Then Reuben, who had tried to save Joseph from the pit long before,
told his brothers that all this trouble had come upon them for their
wickedness to their brother Joseph, and they said to each other in
their own language:

"We are verily guilty concerning our brother; when he besought us, we
would not hear, therefore is this distress come upon us."

Joseph understood everything they said though they did not know it, for
he had been talking to them through an interpreter, and they thought he
was an Egyptian. Now his heart was so full that he had to go out of
the room to weep. But he came back and chose Simeon to stay while the
others went to Canaan to bring back Benjamin.

They took the wheat that they had bought in bags, and went away; but
when they stopped at an inn to rest and feed their asses, one of the
brothers opened his bag, and found the money that he had paid for the
wheat in the top of his bag. Here was more trouble, and they were
afraid.

When they came home to their father they told him all that had
happened, and as they opened the bags, each one found his money. Jacob
was deeply troubled; for Joseph was gone, and Simeon was gone, and now
they wanted to take Benjamin.

Reuben who had two sons said: "Slay my two sons if I bring him not to
thee."

But Jacob said Benjamin should not go down to Egypt. But the wheat was
gone in a short time, and they were likely to starve so great was the
famine, and at last Jacob said they must go to Egypt again for food.

Judah said they would go if Benjamin would go with them, but Jacob
would not listen to this. He asked them why they told the man that
they had a brother, and they replied, that the Governor had asked them
if their father was yet living and if they had another brother.

"Send the lad with me," said Judah, "if I bring him not unto thee, let
me bear the blame forever."

Then Jacob told them to take him and go, and also to take presents of
honey, and spices, and balm, and nuts, and double the money, so as to
return that which was put in their bags, and