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Genesis 44
²⁵ Later, when he said, ‘Go back again and buy us more food,’
²⁶ we replied, ‘We can’t go unless you let our youngest brother go with us. We’ll never get to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
²⁷ “Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,
²⁸ and one of them went away and never returned. Doubtless he was torn to pieces by some wild animal. I have never seen him since.
²⁹ Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.’
³⁰ “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.
³¹ If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave.
³² My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame forever.’
³³ “So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
³⁴ For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”
Genesis 45
¹ Joseph could stand it no longer. There were many people in the room, and he said to his attendants, “Out, all of you!” So he was alone with his brothers when he told them who he was.