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And Israel said, Why did you do me such a wrong and suffer this evil to come upon me by telling the man that you had another brother?

And they said, The man asked us straightforward questions about ourselves and our relatives. He said, Is your father still alive? Have you another brother? And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down here?

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

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Israel(A) asked, “Why did you bring this trouble(B) on me by telling the man you had another brother?”

They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’(C) he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’(D) We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”(E)

Then Judah(F) said to Israel(G) his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.(H)

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