When they got back to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.
He cried out to his brothers, “My money has been returned! Here it is in my bag!” At that their hearts sank. Trembling, they asked one another, “What is this that God has done to us?”
“The man who is lord of the land,” they said, “spoke to us harshly and put us in custody on the grounds that we were spying on the land.
When we returned to your servant my father, we reported to him the words of my lord.
So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.
When they told him, “Joseph is still alive—in fact, it is he who is governing all the land of Egypt,” he was unmoved, for he did not believe them.