Genesis 43:9-11

The Voice

⁹ I will guarantee his safety. You can hold me personally responsible if I don’t bring him back to you in one piece. If anything happens to him, I am perfectly willing to bear the blame forever. ¹⁰ Had we not waited this long already, we could have made the journey twice now and have enough food.

Jacob: ¹¹ All right. If that’s the way it has to be. But do this: take some of the best products our land has to offer; carry them in your bags and present them to the man as a gift—a little balm and honey, some gum and resin, some pistachio nuts and almonds.