4. If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.
5. But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.
6. Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery in that you told him you had also another brother.
7. But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: Bring hither your brother with you?
8. And Juda said to his father: Send the bou with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
9. I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
10. If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.
11. Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.