They did not know that Joseph was listening, since there was an interpreter between them.
Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
Reuben answered them and said, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But you didn’t listen. Now, see how his blood is now being accounted for.”
He turned away from them and wept. When he turned back to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and tied him up before their eyes.
And look, you and my brother Benjamin can see with your own eyes that it’s my mouth that’s speaking to you.
We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.