Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Joseph, listening, could not control his emotions, and he went
out and wept. When he returned, he commanded that Simeon be
bound before their eyes and again committed to prison. Simeon had
been the instigator and chief actor in the cruel treatment of their
brother Joseph.
Before permitting his brothers to leave, Joseph gave directions
that they should be supplied with grain and that each man's money
should be secretly placed in the mouth of his sack. On the way, one
of the group, opening his sack, was surprised to find his bag of
silver. The others were alarmed and said, "What is this that God has
done to us?"
Jacob was anxiously awaiting the return of his sons, and when
they arrived the whole encampment gathered eagerly around as they
told their father all that had happened. Dread filled every heart. The
conduct of the Egyptian governor seemed to imply some evil intent,
and their fears were confirmed when, as they opened their sacks, the
owner's money was found in each. In his distress the aged father
exclaimed, "You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is
no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are
against me." "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is
dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along
the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair
with sorrow to the grave."
But the drought continued, and the supply of grain from Egypt
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