18. Then Judah approached him, and said, "Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?'
20. We said to my lord, 'We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of 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 on him.'
22. But we said to my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
23. You said to your servants, however, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'