and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food.
So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’
As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.
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