And our father said After some time, when the corn was almost consumed they had bought in Egypt: go again, [and] buy us a little food; that may suffice fill the famine is over; see ( Genesis 43:1 ) .
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You said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother doesn't come down with you, you'll never see my face again.'
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"When we went back to my father your servant, we told him what you said.
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Our father told us, ‘Go back and buy for us a little food.'
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But we said, ‘We can't go down. We will go down only if our youngest brother is with us. We won't be able to gain an audience with the man without our youngest brother with us.'
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Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave birth to two sons for me.