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Genesis 42
³⁵ Then it happened as they emptied their sacks, that surprisingly each man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me."
³⁷ Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."
³⁸ But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave."
Genesis 43
¹ Now the famine was severe in the land.
² And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, "Go back, buy us a little food."
³ But Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, ’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 will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ’You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ "
⁶ And Israel said, "Why did you deal so wrongfully with me as to tell the man whether you had still another brother?"
⁷ But they said, "The man asked us pointedly about ourselves and our family, saying, ’Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly have known that he would say, ’Bring your brother down’?"