So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
“We beg your pardon, our lord,” they said, “we came down here the first time to buy food.
But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’
If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
“Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy a little more food.’
Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.