Genesis 44:25
Hebrew Text— Genesis 44:25Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
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Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”
and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.