4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
5but 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.`"
6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, `Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?` We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, `Bring your brother down?`"
8Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
9I will be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don`t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,
10for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
