Genesis 43 — YLT
43Verse 1And the famine [is] severe in the land;Verse 2and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, 'Turn back, buy for us a little food.'Verse 3And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, 'The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;Verse 4if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,Verse 5and 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.'Verse 6And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'Verse 7and 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?'Verse 8And 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.Verse 9I — 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;Verse 10for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'Verse 11And 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;Verse 12and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it [is] an oversight.Verse 13'And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;Verse 14and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved — I am bereaved.'Verse 15And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;Verse 16and Joseph seeth Benjamin with them, and saith to him who [is] over his house, 'Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and make ready, for with me do the men eat at noon.'Verse 17And the man doth as Joseph hath said, and the man bringeth in the men into the house of Joseph,Verse 18and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, 'For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in — to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants — our asses also.'Verse 19And they come nigh unto the man who [is] over the house of Joseph, and speak unto him at the opening of the house,Verse 20and say, 'O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;Verse 21and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money [is] in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;Verse 22and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.'Verse 23And he saith, 'Peace to you, fear not: your God and the God of your father hath given to you hidden treasure in your bags, your money came unto me;' and he bringeth out Simeon unto them.Verse 24And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph's house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses,Verse 25and they prepare the present until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they have heard that there they do eat bread.Verse 26And Joseph cometh into the house, and they bring to him the present which [is] in their hand, into the house, and bow themselves to him, to the earth;Verse 27and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, 'Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?'Verse 28and they say, 'Thy servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance.Verse 29And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and saith, 'Is this your young brother, of whom ye have spoken unto me?' and he saith, 'God favour thee, my son.'Verse 30And Joseph hasteth, for his bowels have been moved for his brother, and he seeketh to weep, and entereth the inner chamber, and weepeth there;Verse 31and he washeth his face, and goeth out, and refraineth himself, and saith, 'Place bread.'Verse 32And they place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it [is] an abomination to the Egyptians.Verse 33And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another;Verse 34and he lifteth up gifts from before him unto them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, yea, they drink abundantly with him.