³Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.

⁴If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.

⁵But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.

⁶Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.

⁷But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?

⁸And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

⁹I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

¹⁰If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.

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