18. Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20. We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
21. “Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’
22. We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’
23. But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’
24. When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.