Genesis 44: 18 - 21, 23 - 29
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Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.
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| 19
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My lord asked his servants, saying, `Have you a father, or a brother?'
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| 20
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And we said to my lord, `We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father loves him.'
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| 21
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Then you said to your servants, `Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.'
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| 23
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Then you said to your servants, `Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'
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| 24
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When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.
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| 25
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And when our father said, `Go again, buy us a little food,'
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| 26
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we 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.'
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| 27
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Then your servant my father said to us, `You know that my wife bore me two sons;
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| 28
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one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.
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| 29
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If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'
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