The famine was severe in the land.

When they had finished eating [entirely comsumed] the food [grain] that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go back and buy a little food [grain] for us.

Yehudah spoke to him saying, The man warned us repeatedly, saying, You had better not see my face unless your brother is with you.

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food [grain] for you.

But if you will not send [him] we will not go down; for the man said to us, You had better not see my face unless your brother is with you.

Yisrael said, Why did you do such harm to me, by telling the man that you had another brother.

They said, The man asked us repeatedly, about ourselves and about our family, saying. Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother? We told him according to his words. Could we have known that he would say, Bring your brother down?

Yehudah said to his father, Yisrael, Send the lad with me, and we will get up and go; let us live and not die, we, you and our children.

I will be security for him. You will demand him from my hand. If I do not bring him to you, and set him before you, I will have sinned [be a sinner] to you for all time.

If we had not hesitated until now, we could have been there and back twice.

Their father Yisrael said to them, If so, here, this is what you must do: Take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and take an offering to the man, a little balsam, a little honey, gum, labdanum, pistachios and almonds.

Take double the money in your hands; and the money that was returned in the opening of your bags return by your own hands. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Take your brother, get up and return to the man.

May the Almighty, Shaddai, grant you compassion in the presence of the man, that he may release to you your other brother along with Binyamin. If I have been bereft of my children, I will be bereft.

The men took that offering, and they took double money in their hands, and [they took] Binyamin. They rose and went down to Egypt, and they stood before Yoseif.

When Yoseif saw Binyamin with them he said to the one in charge of his house, Bring these men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for these men shall dine with me at noon [the morning meal].

The man did as Yoseif said, and the man brought the men to the house of Yoseif.

The men were afraid because they had been brought to Yoseif’s house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our bags previously are we being brought [here]; that he may turn on [act as a lord over] us and come down on [libel] us, and take [acquire] us for slaves along with [and take] our donkeys.

They approached the man, who was in charge of Yoseif’s house, and they spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

They said, Please, my master, we came down the first time to buy food [grain].

When we came to the inn and opened our bags, behold each man’s money was in the opening of his bag. It was our own money in its full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

We have [also] brought other money in our hand to buy food [grain]. We do not know who put the money in our bags.

He [the man] said, Peace be with you, do not fear. Your God, and the God of your fathers, has given you a hidden gift in your bags. Your money has come to me. He then brought Shimon out to them.

The man brought the men into the house of Yoseif. He gave them water and they washed their feet. He had feed given to their donkeys.

They prepared their offering [to be ready] when Yoseif came at noon [to the morning meal], for they had heard that they would eat there.

Yoseif came to the house, and they brought the offering that was in their hand, to him in the house. They prostrated themselves on the ground to him.

He inquired about their welfare, and said, Is your old father at peace, the one about whom you spoke? Is he still alive?

They said, Your servant, our father is at peace. He is still alive. They bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.

He raised his eyes and saw his brother Binyamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me? He [then] said, Elohim be gracious to you [Graciousness from before Elohim be upon you] my son.

Yoseif hurried [to go out] because his compassion was aroused toward his brother, and he wanted to weep. He went into [his] [bed]room and wept there.

He washed his face and came out. He composed himself, and said, Serve bread.

They set [a place] for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, since the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews, because it was loathsome to the [the animal that the] Egyptians [worship, the Hebrews eat].

They were seated [reclined] before him, the first born [the oldest] according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

He had portions carried from before him to [before] them. Binyomin’s portions was greater than all of their’s—five times as much. They drank with him and became intoxicated.