Genesis 42:20
20and abring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.Genesis 42:34
34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall btrade in the land.’”Genesis 43:3
3But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your cbrother is with you.’Genesis 44:20-34
20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, dand a young brother, ethe child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21Then you said to your servants, f‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, ghis father would die.’ 23Then you said to your servants, h‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’24“When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25And when iour father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me jtwo sons. 28One left me, and I said, k“Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29If you ltake this one also from me, mand harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’
30“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, n‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”
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