042:036 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me
of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more,
and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things
are against me."
042:037 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons,
if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care,
and I will bring him to you again."
042:038 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along
the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
043:001 The famine was severe in the land.
043:002 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again,
buy us a little more food."
043:003 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying,
'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
043:004 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,
043:005 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man
said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother
is with you.'"
043:006 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man
that you had another brother?"
043:007 They 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?'"
043:008 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me,
and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die,