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Genesis 44
¹⁷ But he said, "Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
¹⁸ Then Judah approached him, and said, "Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, ’Have you a father or a brother?’
²⁰ We said to my lord, ’We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
²¹ Then you said to your servants, ’Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.’
²² But we said to my lord, ’The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
²³ You said to your servants, however, ’Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
²⁴ Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
²⁵ Our father said, ’Go back, buy us a little food.’
²⁶ But we said, ’We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
²⁷ Your servant my father said to us, ’You know that my wife bore me two sons;