[The Pentateuch]

And Joseph said unto them the third day: This do and live / for I fear God If ye mean no hurt / let one of your brethren be bound in the prison / and goo 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 dye not And they did so.

And Joseph sayde vnto thē the thryd daye: This doo and lyue / for I feare Gode Yf ye meane no hurte / let one of youre brethern be bounde in the preason / and goo ye and brynge the necessarie foode vnto youre housholdes / and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that youre wordes maye be beleved / ād that ye dye not And they did so.

Than 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 / & would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us. Reuben 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.

Than they sayde one to a nother: we haue verely synned agaynst oure brother / in that we sawe the anguysh of his soull when he besought us / & wold not heare him: therfore is this troubyll come apon us. Ruben answered thē saynge: sayde I not vnto you that ye shulde not synne agaynst the lad? but ye wolde not heare And now verely see / his bloude is requyred.

They were not aware that Joseph understood them / for he spake unto them by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wept / and than turned to them again and communed with them / and toke out Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes / and commanded to fill their sacks with corn / and to put every mans money in his sack / and to give them victual to spend by the way. And so it was done to them.