30. “The man who is governor of the land spoke very harshly to us,” they told him. “He accused us of being spies scouting the land.
31. But we said, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
32. We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One brother is no longer with us, and the youngest is at home with our father in the land of Canaan.’
33. “Then the man who is governor of the land told us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take grain for your starving families and go on home.