New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Genesis 44
30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,
31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
32 For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ’If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.’
33 Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
34 For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me-for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?"
Genesis 45
1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, "Have everyone go out from me." So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2 He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.
3 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come closer to me." And they came closer. And he said, "I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
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