Joseph then ordered his servants to fill the men’s sacks with grain, but he also gave secret instructions to return each brother’s payment at the top of his sack. He also gave them supplies for their journey home.So the brothers loaded their donkeys with grain and headed for home. (vv. 25-26, NLT)
When the brothers came to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that happen to them. (v. 29, NLT)
As they emptied out their sacks, there in each man’s sack was the bag of money he had paid for the grain! The brothers and their father were terrified when they saw the bags of money. Jacob exclaimed, “You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone, Simeon is gone! An now you want to take Benjamin, too! Everything is going against me!”
Then Ruben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I don’t bring Benjamin back to you. I’ll be responsible for hi, and I promises to bring him back.”
But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on our journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.” (vv. 35-38, NLT)