²⁰ “We beg your pardon, our lord,” they said, “we came down here the first time to buy food.^(A)

³ Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain^(A) from Egypt.

¹⁰ “No, my lord,^(A)” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.^(B)

⁷ They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’^(A) he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’^(B) We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”^(C)

³ But Judah^(A) said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’^(B)

³⁵ As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his pouch of silver!^(A) When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.^(B)

²⁷ At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey,^(A) and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.^(B)