¹⁹ If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in ·prison [the guardhouse] while the rest of you go and carry grain ·back to feed your hungry families [^Lfor your families because of the famine]. ²⁰ Then bring your ·youngest [smallest] brother back here to me. If you do this, ·I will know you are telling the truth [^Lyour words will be confirmed], and you will not die.”

The brothers agreed to this. ²¹ They said to each other, “[^LAlas,] We are ·being punished [or guilty] for what we did to our brother. We saw ·his trouble [the distress of his soul], and he ·begged us to save him [pleaded with us], but we ·refused to [^Ldid not] listen. That is why we are in this ·trouble [distress] now.”