Genesis 43 - 45

Israel eats all the grain Joseph sent home with his brothers and the famine was still severe. Jacob tries to get his sons to go back for more without Benjamin, but they refuse, fearing what the prime minister of Egypt might do to them. When the rumblings of Jacob's stomach get louder than the rumblings coming from his lips, he relents. Judah is adamant that he will be personally responsible for Benjamin's safety, so their father loads them down with gifts for the PM and sends them back with twice the amount of silver, in case there was some mistake made when the money was placed back in their sacks.
Jacob is now a believer in God Almighty, praying over the brothers as they prepare to leave.
Joseph prepares a great feast for them upon their return. But the guilty brothers are fearful it is a trick to take them all captive. They try to explain the return of the money from the first trip to Joseph's steward, who calms their fears, also invoking the name of the God of Israel. They again bow themselves at Joseph's feet, who inquires after their father's health. Joseph was greatly moved upon seeing his younger brother, Benjamin, and excused himself to go to his room and weep.
The brothers are slightly astonished when they are seated according to their ages, but still don't suspect the Prime Minister is their brother. They must have been perplexed when Benjamin was served five times as much food as any of the rest of them, but still clueless.
Joseph again fills their feed sacks and returns the money on top of the grain, but he also has his steward stash his own silver cup in the mouth of Benjamin's sack—still working his plan to reveal the contents of his brother's hearts. When the Israelites left Egypt with their sacks of grain, Joseph sends the army after them to apprehend them with an accusation of theft of the cup.
Unaware of the cup hidden in Benjamin's sack, they swear on his life and their freedom they don't have it. In dramatic fashion, the steward searches all their sacks, going from oldest to youngest and finding the cup in Benjamin's bag. They tore their clothing as a sign of sorrow and returned to Joseph, where they prostrated themselves on the ground in front of him. Judah, who has become the spokesman for the family, offers them all up to him. When Joseph refuses to enslave them all, but demands Benjamin, the supposed thief, become his slave while the rest of them return to Canaan, Judah gives a very impassioned speech, offering himself in place of Benjamin.
Joseph can no longer contain himself. He sees the true repentance and sorrow of his brothers, so he sends all the Egyptians out and makes his identity known to them with weeping so loud that even Pharaoh heard of it. The brothers are speechless and terrified.
Joseph calms their fears by telling them how God had turned to the good what they meant as evil. He requests they return to Canaan to fetch their father and come live in Egypt for the duration of the famine, which was just starting. Pharaoh agreed, because he valued Joseph very much, and was caught up in the drama unfolding before him, sending carts, donkeys and provisions for their trip back.
Old Jacob almost had heart failure when he was told Joseph was alive and the ruler of Egypt.
What a story! I love this story. It proves that dreams really do come true, and that God can turn things men mean as evil into something very good and that men can and do repent and become changed—that Jesus is alive and working in the affairs of humans.