And thereby shall your words be proved,
whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharao,
ye are but spies. And he put them in ward three days. And Ioseph
said unto the third day: This do and live, for I fear God. {Gode}
If ye mean no hurt, let one of your brethren be bound in the
prison, and go ye and bring the necessary food unto your
households, and bring your youngest brother unto me: that your
words may be believed, and that ye die not; And they did so. Then
they said one to another: we have verily sinned against our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought
us, and would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon
us. Ruben answered them saying: said I not unto you that ye should
not sin against the lad? but ye would not hear; And now verily
see, his blood is required. They were not aware that Ioseph
understood them, for he spake unto them by an interpreter. And he
turned from them and wept, and then turned to them again and
communed with them, and took out Simeon from among them and bound
him before their eyes, and commanded to fill their sacks with
corn, and to put every man's money in his sack, and to give them
vitaille to spend by the way.
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