Genesis 43:3–10

³Then Judah said to him, “The man solemnly admonished us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ⁴If you will send^a our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you, ⁵but if you will not send^b him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ” ⁶Then Israel said, “Why did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?” ⁷And they said, “The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?’ And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring down your brother’?” ⁸Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die—you, we, and our children. ⁹I myself will be surety for him. You may seek him from my hand. If I do not bring him back to you and present him before you, then I will stand guilty before you forever. ¹⁰Surely if we had not hesitated by this time we would have returned twice.”