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 is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take away Benjamin, whom his mother died in bearing: all these things are against me.

Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee.

Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother?

Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

The man knew all things: for though the city hath ten gates; and we went in, each of us by a separate gate, yet he knew all our going and coming.

He is called the Revealer of Secrets.

Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we and thou, and our little ones.

Israel! Israel!

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever. For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Father, let me go. I have no fear of the man.

Can'st thou leave me, Benjamin?

For my brothers' sakes, and for the sake of their children.

[To ] If evil befall him, thou shalt bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.