3If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:
4But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.
5And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?
6And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?
7Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.
8Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
9Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.
