So
shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our
father with sorrow unto the grave. For I thy servant became surety
for the lad unto my father and said: if I bring him not unto thee
again. I will bear the blame all my life long. Now therefore let
me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman:
and let the lad go home with his brethren. For how can I go unto
my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the
wretchedness that shall come on my father.
Chapter .xlv.
And Ioseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood
about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and
that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself
unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians and
the house of Pharao heard it. And he said unto his brethren: I am
Ioseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer
him, for they were abashed at his presence. And Ioseph said unto
his brethren: come near to me, and they came near. And he said: I
am Ioseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt. And now be not
grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes,
that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save
life.
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