18. But Judah drew near to him and said, “Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
19. My lord had asked his servants, saying, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20. And we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.’
21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.’
22. Then we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.’
23. Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.’
24. And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.