18Then Judah stepped forward and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant say just one word to you. Please, do not be angry with me, even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh himself.
19“My lord, previously you asked us, your servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
21“And you said to us, ‘Bring him here so I can see him with my own eyes.’
24“So we returned to your servant, our father, and told him what you had said.
27“Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,
30“And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.
33“So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.