How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with
us? Then said Iuda unto Israel his father: Send the lad with me,
and we will rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we,
thou and also our children. I will be surety for him, and of my
hands require him. If I bring him not to thee and set him before
thine eyes, then let me bear the blame for ever. For except we had
made this tarrying: by this we had been there twice and come
again. Then their father Israel said unto them: if it must needs
be so now: then do thus, take of the best fruits of the land in
your vessels, and bring the man a present, a courtesy balm, and a
courtesy of honey, spices and myrrh, dates and almonds. And take
as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again
in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure
it was some oversight. Take also your brother with you, and arise
and go again to the man. And God almighty give you mercy in the
sight of the man and send you your other brother and also Ben
Iamin, and I will be as a man robbed of his children. Thus took
they the present and twice so much more money with them, and Ben
Iamin. And rose up, went down to Egypt, and presented themself to
Ioseph.
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