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Genesis 44:19-24 English Standard Version (ESV)

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. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’

21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

22. We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

23. Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’

24. “When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.