5. and if thou art not sending--we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.'
6. And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
7. and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'
8. And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
9. I--I am surety [for] him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee--then I have sinned against thee all the days;
10. for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'
11. And Israel their father saith unto them, `If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;