And when both they and their
father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. And Iacob their
father said unto them: Me have ye robbed of my children: Ioseph is
away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Ben Iamin away. All
these things fall upon me. Ruben answered his father saying: Slay
my two sons, if I bring him not to thee again. Deliver him
therefore to my hand, and I will bring him to thee again: And he
said: my son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead,
and he is left alone. Moreover some misfortune might happen upon
him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head
with sorrow unto the grave.
Chapter .xliij.
And the dearth waxed sore in the land. And when they had eaten up
that corn which they brought out of the land of Egypt, their
father said unto them: go again and buy us a little food. Then
said Iuda unto him: the man did testify unto us saying: look that
ye see not my face except your brother be with you. Therefore if
thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go and buy the food.
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go: for the man said
unto us: look that ye see not my face, except your brother be with
you. And Israel said: wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to
tell the man that ye had yet another brother? And they said: The
man asked us of our kindred saying: is your father yet alive? have
ye not another brother? And we told him according to these words.
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