7. They said, "The man asked us pointedly about our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?’ So we told him just what we’ve said. How were we to know he’d say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?"
8. Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the young man with me. Let’s get ready to leave so that we can stay alive and not die—we, you, and our children.
9. I will guarantee his safety; you can hold me responsible. If I don’t bring him back to you and place him here in front of you, it will be my fault forever.
10. If we hadn’t waited so long, we would’ve returned twice by now."
11. Their father Israel said to them, "If it has to be, then do this. Take in your bags some of the land’s choice produce, and bring it down to the man as a gift: a little medicinal resin, a little honey, gum, resin, pistachios, and almonds.