Genesis 43

¹And the famine [is] severe in the land;

²and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, 'Turn back, buy for us a little food.'

³And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, 'The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;

⁴if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,

⁵and if thou art not sending — we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.'

⁶And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

⁷and they say, 'The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

⁸And Judah saith unto Israel his father, 'Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.

⁹I — I am surety [for] him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee — then I have sinned against thee all the days;

¹⁰for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'

¹¹And Israel their father saith unto them, 'If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;