4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
5 but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.''
6 Israel said, 'Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?'
7 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?''
8 Judah said to Israel, his father, 'Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
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