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CHAP. XLIII.

N THE meane time the famine did oppresse al the land very sore. And the prouision being spent, which they had brought out of Ægypt, Iacob said to his sonnes: Goe againe, and buy vs a little victual. Iudas answered: That same man denounced vnto vs vnder attestation of an oath, saying: You shal not see my face, vnlesse you bring your yongest brother with you. If therfore thou wilt send him with vs, we wil goe forward together, and wil buy necessaries for thee: but if thou wilt not, we wil not goe: for the man, as we haue often said, denounced vnto vs saying: You shal not see my face without your yongest brother. Israel said to them: You haue done this to my miserie, in that you told him that you had an other brother also. But they answered: The man asked vs in order our progenie: if our father liued; if we had a brother: and we answered him consequently to that which he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you? Iudas also said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may liue: lest we and our litle ones die. I take vpon me the boy: require him of my hand, vnlesse I bring him againe, and restore him to thee, I wil be guiltie of sinne against thee for euer. If delay had not been made, we had been come now the second time. Therfore Israel their father said to them: If it must needs be so, do that you wil: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carie to the man for presents, a courtesie of rosen, & of honey, & of incense, of mirhe, of terebinth, and of almonds. Double money also carie with you: and recarie that you found in your sackes, lest perhaps it was done by an errour: but take also your brother, and goe to the man. And my God almightie make him fauourable vnto you: and send backe with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Beniamin: as for me I shal be desolate without children. The men therfore tooke the presents, & the double money, & Beniamin: & went downe into Ægypt, & stood before Ioseph. Whom when he had seen, & Beniamin withal Rh