If you let our brother go with us, we’ll go and buy food for you.
I’ve heard there’s grain for sale in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us so that we won’t starve to death.”
When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, Israel said to his sons, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Judah said to him, “The man gave us a severe warning: ‘You won’t be allowed to see me again unless your brother is with you.’
If you won’t let him go, we won’t go. The man said to us, ‘You won’t be allowed to see me again unless your brother is with you.’ ”
We answered, ‘We can’t go back. We can only go back if our youngest brother is with us. The man won’t see us unless our youngest brother is with us.’
