The Test and the Brothers' Guilt

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Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.

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If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

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But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

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And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

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And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.

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(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

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Then he turned from them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke Simeon from among them, and bounde him before their eyes.

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So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.

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And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

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And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.

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Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke. And their heart fayled them, and they were astonished, and sayde one to another, What is this, that God hath done vnto vs?

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