1 Now the famine was severe in the land.
2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, “Go back. Buy us a little food.”
3 But Judah said to him, “The man warned us firmly saying, ‘You won’t see my face unless your brother is with you.’
4 If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy grain for you for food.
5 But if you won’t send him, we won’t go down, because the man said to us, ‘You won’t see my face unless your brother is with you.’”