[The Pentateuch]

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?

And they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sacke / for to geue his asse prauender in the I•ne / he spied his money in his sacks mouth And he sayde vnto his brethren: my money is restored me agayne / & is euē in my sackes mouth Than their hartes fayled them / and were astoynyed and sayde one to a nother: how cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan / and told him all that had happened them saying. The lord of the land spake roughly to us / and toke us for spies to search the count. And we said unto him: we mean truly and are no spies. We be .xij. brethren sons of our father / one is away / and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.