Genesis 43:2-7 ▼

2 As a result, when Jacob's family was beginning to eat the last of the grain that they had brought back from Egypt, their father Jacob told his sons, |Go back to Egypt and buy us some food.|

3 But Judah reminded him, |The man distinctly warned us: 'You'll never see my face unless your brother comes with you.'

4 So if you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy some food.

5 But if you don't send him, we're not going, because the man told us, 'You'll never see my face unless your brother is with you.'|

6 Israel replied, |Why did you make all this trouble by telling the man that you have another brother?|

7 |The man specifically asked about us and our relatives,| they responded. |He asked us, 'Is your father still alive?' and 'Do you have another brother?' So we answered his questions. How could we have known that he would tell us to bring our brother back with us?|