18 Then ⁿJudah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for ^oyou are like Pharaoh himself. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 20 And ^pwe said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father ^qloves him.’ 21 Then ^ryou said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23 Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’

24 “When we went back to your servant my father, ^swe told him the words of my lord. 25 And ^twhen our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26 ^uwe said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that ^vmy wife bore me two sons. 28 One left me, and ^wI said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29 ^xIf ^yyou take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’