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Then Judah came near to him and said : "
O my lord ,
please let your servant speak a word in my lord '
s hearing ,
and do not let your anger burn against your servant ;
for you are even like Pharaoh .
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My lord asked his servants ,
saying , "
Have you a father or a brother ?'
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And we said to my lord , "
We have a father ,
an old man ,
and a child of his old age ,
who is young ;
his brother is dead ,
and he alone is left of his mother '
s children ,
and his father loves him .'
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Then you said to your servants , "
Bring him down to me ,
that I may set my eyes on him .'
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And we said to my lord , "
The lad cannot leave his father ,
for if he should leave his father ,
his father would die .'
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But you said to your servants , "
Unless your youngest brother comes down with you ,
you shall see my face no more .'
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So it was ,
when we went up to your servant my father ,
that we told him the words of my lord .
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And our father said , "
Go back and buy us a little food .'
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But we said , "
We cannot go down ;
if our youngest brother is with us ,
then we will go down ;
for we may not see the man '
s face unless our youngest brother is with us .'
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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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and the one went out from me ,
and I said , "
Surely he is torn to pieces ";
and I have not seen him since .
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But if you take this one also from me ,
and calamity befalls him ,
you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave .'
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Now therefore ,
when I come to your servant my father ,
and the lad is not with us ,
since his life is bound up in the lad '
s life ,
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it will happen ,
when he sees that the lad is not with us ,
that he will die .
So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave .
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For your servant became surety for the lad to my father ,
saying , "
If I do not bring him back to you ,
then I shall bear the blame before my father forever .'
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Now therefore ,
please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord ,
and let the lad go up with his brothers .
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For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me ,
lest perhaps I see the evil that would come upon my father ?"