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Then Judah approached him and said, "Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord's ears, and ^(F1)(C1)do not be angry with your servant; for ^(C2)you are equal to Pharaoh.

"^(C1)My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?'

"And we said to my lord, 'We have an old father and ^(C1)a little boy born in our father's old age. Now ^(C2)his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'

"Then you said to your servants, '^(C1)Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.'

"But we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, ^(F1)his father would die.'

"You said to your servants, however, '^(C1)Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'

"So it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

"And ^(C1)our father said, 'Go back, buy us a little food.'

"But we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

"Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that ^(C1)my wife bore me two sons;

and the one left me, and ^(C1)I said, "Surely he is torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.

'If you also take this one from ^(F1)me, and harm happens to him, you will ^(C1)bring my gray hair down to Sheol in ^(F2)sorrow.'