Genesis 43:1-5 ▼

1 Now the famine was severe in the land.

2 So it came about, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

3 Judah spoke to him, however, saying, “The man sternly warned us, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

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

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