18. Then Judah, approaching closer, said confidently: "I beg you, my lord, let your servant speak a word in your ears, and do not be angry with your servant. For you are next to Pharaoh.
19. My lord, you questioned your servants before: 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
20. And we answered you, my lord: 'There is our father, an old man, and a young boy, who was born in his old age. His brother of the same womb has died, and he alone is left to his mother and father, who truly love him tenderly.'
21. And you said to your servants, 'Bring him to me, and I will set my eyes on him.'
22. We suggested to my lord: 'The boy is not able to leave his father. For if he sends him away, he will die.'