18 Then Judah went up to him and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
19 My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20 And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
21 “Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’
22 And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’
23 But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
24 When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.