Genesis 43:8 DBY

⁶  And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

⁷  And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

⁸  And Judah said to 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 our little ones.

⁹  I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not to thee, and set him before thy face, then shall I be guilty toward thee for ever.

¹⁰  For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have returned already twice.