Judah Pleads for Benjamin
| 18 | Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. |
| 19 | My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? |
| 20 | And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. |
| 21 | And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. |
| 22 | And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. |
| 23 | And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. |
| 24 | And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. |
| 25 | And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food. |
| 26 | And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. |
| 27 | And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons: |
| 28 | And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: |
| 29 | And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. |
| 30 | Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; |
| 31 | It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. |
| 32 | For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. |
| 33 | Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. |
| 34 | For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. |
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