⁷ “The man kept asking us questions about our family,” they replied. “He asked, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered his questions. How could we know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

³ But Judah said, “The man was serious when he warned us, ‘You won’t see my face again unless your brother is with you.’

²⁷ After greeting them, he asked, “How is your father, the old man you spoke about? Is he still alive?”

¹³ “Sir,” they said, “there are actually twelve of us. We, your servants, are all brothers, sons of a man living in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is back there with our father right now, and one of our brothers is no longer with us.”