²³ And they had no da’as that Yosef understood them; for he spoke unto them by the melitz (go-between, interpreter).

²⁴ And he turned himself away from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and spoke with them, and took from them Shimon, and bound him before their eyes.

²⁵ Then Yosef commanded to fill their kelim with grain, and to restore every man’s kesef into his sack, and to give them provision for the derech; and thus did he unto them.