18 Then Judah went up to him and said, (A)“Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and (B)let not your anger burn against your servant, for (C)you are like Pharaoh himself. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 20 And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, (D)and a young brother, (E)the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.’

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18 Then Judah(A) went up to him and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord,(B) let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry(C) with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself. 19 My lord asked his servants,(D) ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’(E) 20 And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.(F) His brother is dead,(G) and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’(H)

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