以色列說:「你們為什麼告訴他你們還有一個弟弟,給我惹麻煩呢?」 他們回答說:「那人詳細詢問我們和我們家人的情況,問我們的父親是否在世,還有沒有弟兄。我們如實回答,怎會想到他非要我們把弟弟帶去呢?」

猶大對父親以色列說:「你就讓便雅憫跟我同去吧,我們好立刻動身,這樣我們一家老小才能保住性命,不致餓死。

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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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