Genesis 43:1-5 ▼

1 Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].

2 And it happened that when the families of Jacob’s sons had finished eating [all of] the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”

3 But Judah said to him, “The man [representing Pharaoh] solemnly and sternly warned us, saying, ‘You will not see my face [again] unless your brother is with you.’

4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.

5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down there; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”