⁶ Israel^(A) asked, “Why did you bring this trouble^(B) on me by telling the man you had another brother?”

⁷ 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)

⁸ 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)