New International Reader's Version

Genesis 44:18-22 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

18. Then Judah went up to him. He said, "Please, sir. Let me speak a word to you. Don't be angry with me, even though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

19. You asked us, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

20. We answered, 'We have an old father. A young son was born to him when he was old. His brother is dead. He's the only one of his mother's sons left. And his father loves him.'

21. "Then you said to us, 'Bring him down to me. I want to see him for myself.'

22. "We said to you, 'The boy can't leave his father. If he does, his father will die.'