¹⁹ If you are honest men,^(A) let one of your brothers stay here in prison,^(B) while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.^(C)

³³ “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.^(A)

⁸ Then Judah^(A) said to Israel^(B) his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.^(C)

¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes^(A)—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food,^(B) and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh.^(C) Give us seed so that we may live and not die,^(D) and that the land may not become desolate.”