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And they said, Thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

But bring your yongest brother vnto mee, so shall your wordes be verified, and yee shall not die: and they did so.

And they said one to another, We are verily guiltie concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare: therefore is this distresse come vpon vs.

And they knew not that Ioseph vnderstood them: for hee spake vnto them by an interpreter.

And they laded their asses with the corne, and departed thence.

And he said vnto his brethren, My money is restored, and loe, it is euen in my sacke: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to an other, What is this that God hath done vnto vs?

And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell vnto them, saying;

And it came to passe as they emptied their sacks, that behold, euery mans bundle of money was in his sacke: and when both they and their father saw the bundels of money, they were afraid.

And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne, which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said vnto them, Goe againe, buy vs a little foode.

And they said, The man asked vs straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue yee another brother? and we tolde him according to the tenour of these words: Could we certainely knowe that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

And the men tooke that Present, and they tooke double money in their hand, and Beniamin, and rose vp, and went downe to Egypt, and stood before Ioseph.

And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Iosephs house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sackes at the first time are we brought in, that hee may seeke occasion against vs, and fall vpon vs, and take vs for bondmen, and our asses.

And they came neere to the steward of Iosephs house, and they communed with him at the doore of the house,

And the man brought the men into Iosephs house, and gaue them water, and they washed their feete, and he gaue their asses prouender.

And they made ready the Present against Ioseph came at noone: for they heard that they should eate bread there.

And when Ioseph came home, they brought him the Present which was in their hand, into the house, and bowed themselues to him to the earth.

And they answered, Thy seruant our father is in good health, hee is yet aliue: & they bowed downe their heads, and made obeisance.

And they set on for him by himselfe, and for them by themselues, and for the Egyptians which did eate with him, by themselues: because the Egyptians might not eate bread with the Hebrewes: for that is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.

And they sate before him, the first borne according to his birthright, and the yongest according to his youth: and the men marueiled one at another.

And hee tooke and sent measses vnto them from before him: but Beniamins measse was fiue times so much as any of theirs: and they drunke, and were merry with him.