17. “No,” Joseph said. “I would never do such a thing! Only the man who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”
18. Then Judah stepped forward and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant say just one word to you. Please, do not be angry with me, even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh himself.
19. “My lord, previously you asked us, your servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20. And we responded, ‘Yes, my lord, we have a father who is an old man, and his youngest son is a child of his old age. His full brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him very much.’
21. “And you said to us, ‘Bring him here so I can see him with my own eyes.’
22. But we said to you, ‘My lord, the boy cannot leave his father, for his father would die.’