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Genesis - ch 43 v 1 - 20
- And the famine `is' severe in the land;
- and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'
- And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you;
- if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,
- and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you.'
- And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
- and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'
- And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
- I -- I am surety `for' him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee -- then I have sinned against thee all the days;
- for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'
- And Israel their father saith unto them, `If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;
- and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it `is' an oversight.
- `And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;
- and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'
- And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;
- and Joseph seeth Benjamin with them, and saith to him who `is' over his house, `Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and make ready, for with me do the men eat at noon.'
- And the man doth as Joseph hath said, and the man bringeth in the men into the house of Joseph,
- and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, `For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in -- to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants -- our asses also.'
- And they come nigh unto the man who `is' over the house of Joseph, and speak unto him at the opening of the house,
- and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;
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