Genesis 43:1-9 ▼

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

2 and it comes to pass, when they have finished eating the grain which they brought from Egypt, that their father says to them, “Return, buy for us a little food.”

3 And Judah speaks to him, saying, “The man protesting protested to us, saying, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;

4 if you are sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for you food,

5 and if you are not sending—we do not go down, for the man said to us, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.”

6 And Israel says, “Why did you do evil to me, by declaring to the man that you had yet a brother?”

7 And they say, “The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our family, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have you 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?”

8 And Judah says to his father Israel, “Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and you, and our infants.

9 I am guarantor [for] him, from my hand you require him; if I have not brought him to you, and set him before you—then I have sinned against you all the days;