And Israel said, “Why did you deal so [a]wrongfully with me as to tell the man whether you had still another brother?”

But they said, “The man asked us pointedly about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly have known that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may (A)live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 43:6 Lit. wickedly

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