Glancing Through the Scriptures

 (KJV,)  GENESIS 42:2228

Joseph's brethren visit:

(22)  And Reuben answered them, saying,  Spake I not unto you,  saying,  Do not sin against the child;  and ye would not hear?  therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

(23)  And they knew not that Joseph understood them;  for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

(24)  And he turned himself about from them, and wept, and returned to them again and communed with them and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

(25)  Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way, and thus did he unto them.

(26)  And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

(27)  And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn;  he espied his money, for behold, it was in his sack's mouth.

(28)  And he said unto his brethren,  My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:  and their heart failed them; and they were afraid, saying one to another,  What is this that God hath done unto us?

ADDENDUM

What is the reason why Joseph decided to bound Simeon before his siblings?