Genesis 43:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ Then Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, so that we may rise and go and so that we may live and not die, both we and you and our children.

⁹ “I will be surety for him. From my hand shall you require him. If I do not bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

¹⁰ “For if we had not lingered here, doubtless by now we would have returned a second time.”