Genesis 43:6-8

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁶ And Israel said, Why did ye such evil unto me as to tell the man that ye had another brother?

⁷ And they said, The man asked us expressly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

⁸ Then Judah said unto Israel, his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we and thou and also our little ones.