27 But as ^aone of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the encampment, he saw his money; and there it was, in the mouth of his sack.  ‡

28 So he said to his brothers, “My money has been restored, and there it is, in my sack!” Then their hearts¹ failed them and they were afraid, saying to one another, “What is this that God has done to us?”  ‡

30 “The man who is lord of the land ^aspoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.  ‡

31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.