Genesis 43
Reading Genesis chapter 43 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.
Verses 1–10
1 And the famine is severe in the land;
2 and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'
3 And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother being with you;
4 if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,
5 and if thou art not sending--we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother being with you.'
6 And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
7 and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'
8 And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
9 I--I am surety for him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee--then I have sinned against thee all the days;
10 for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'
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