Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Genesis 44
¹⁷ But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father."
¹⁸ Then Judah came near to him and said: "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like Pharaoh.
¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, ’Have you a father or a brother?’
²⁰ And we said to my lord, ’We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, 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 And we said to my lord, ’The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
²³ But you said to your servants, ’Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.’
²⁴ So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord.
²⁵ And our father said, ’Go back and 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 may not see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
²⁷ Then your servant my father said to us, ’You know that my wife bore me two sons;