[The Pentateuch]

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.

They were not aware that Joseph vnderstode thein / for he spake vnto them by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wepte / and than turned to them agayne ād comened with them / and toke out Simeon from amonge thē and bownde him before their eyes / ād commaunded to fyll their sackes wyth corne / and to put euery mans money in his sacke / and to geue them vitayle to spende by the waye. And so it was done to them.

And they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sack / for to give his ass provender in the I•ne / he spied his money in his sacks mouth And he said unto his brethren: my money is restored me again / & is even in my sacks mouth Than their hearts failed them / and were astonied and said one to another: how cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?