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1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eat­en up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their fa­ther said unto them, Go again, buy us a lit­tle food. 3 And Ju­dah spake unto him, say­ing, The man did solemn­ly protest unto us, say­ing, Ye shall not see my face, ex­cept your broth­er be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our broth­er with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, ex­cept your broth­er be with you. 6 And Is­rael said, Where­fore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a broth­er? 7 And they said, The man asked us strait­ly of our state, and of our kin­dred, say­ing, Is your fa­ther yet alive? have ye another broth­er? and we told him ac­cord­ing to the tenor of these words: could we cer­tain­ly know that he would say, Bring your broth­er down? 8 And Ju­dah said unto Is­rael his fa­ther, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our lit­tle ones. 9 I will be sure­ty for him; of my hand shalt thou re­quire him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him be­fore thee, then let me bear the blame for ev­er: 10 For ex­cept we had lin­gered, sure­ly now we had re­turned this sec­ond time. 11 And their fa­ther Is­rael said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your ves­sels, and car­ry down the man a pre­sent, a lit­tle balm, and a lit­tle hon­ey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and al­monds: 12 And take dou­ble mon­ey in your hand; and the mon­ey that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, car­ry it again in your hand; per­ad­ven­ture it was an over­sight: 13 Take also your broth­er, and arise, go again unto the man: 14 And God Almighty give you mer­cy be­fore the man, that he may send away your oth­er broth­er, and Ben­jamin. If I be be­reaved of my children, I am be­reaved. 15 And the men took that pre­sent, and they took dou­ble mon­ey in their hand, and Ben­jamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood be­fore Joseph. 16 And when Joseph saw Ben­jamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon. 17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. 18 And the men were afraid, be­cause they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Be­cause of the mon­ey that was re­turned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek oc­ca­sion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bond­men, and our ass­es. 19 And they came near to the stew­ard of Joseph's house, and they com­muned with him at the door of the house, 20 And said, O sir, we came in­deed down at the first time to buy food: 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, be­hold, every man's mon­ey was in the mouth of his sack, our mon­ey in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. 22 And oth­er mon­ey have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we can­not tell who put our mon­ey in our sacks. 23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your fa­ther, hath giv­en you trea­sure in your sacks: I had your mon­ey. And he brought Sime­on out unto them. 24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them wa­ter, and they washed their feet; and he gave their ass­es proven­der. 25 And they made ready the pre­sent against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the pre­sent which was in their hand into the house, and bowed them­selves to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them of their wel­fare, and said, Is your fa­ther well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they an­swered, Thy ser­vant our fa­ther is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obei­sance. 29 And he lift­ed up his eyes, and saw his broth­er Ben­jamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger broth­er, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gra­cious unto thee, my son. 30 And Joseph made haste; for his bow­els did yearn upon his broth­er: and he sought where to weep; and he en­tered into his cham­ber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and went out, and re­frained him­self, and said, Set on bread. 32 And they set on for him by him­self, and for them by them­selves, and for the Egyp­tians, which did eat with him, by them­selves: be­cause the Egyp­tians might not eat bread with the He­brews; for that is an abom­i­na­tion unto the Egyp­tians. 33 And they sat be­fore him, the first­born ac­cord­ing to his birthright, and the youngest ac­cord­ing to his youth: and the men mar­velled one at an­oth­er. 34 And he took and sent mess­es unto them from be­fore him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were mer­ry with him.