18. Then Judah came close to [Joseph] and said, O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word to you in private, and let not your anger blaze against your servant, for you are as Pharaoh [so I will speak as if directly to him].
19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
20. 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 [offspring], and his father loves him.
21. And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.
22. And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should do so, his father would die.
23. And you told your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you shall not see my face again.
24. And when we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.