Genesis 43:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

⁹ “I will be surety for him. From my hand shall you require him. If I do not bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

¹⁰ “For if we had not lingered here, doubtless by now we would have returned a second time.”

¹¹ Then their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so now, do this: take from the best fruits of the land in your vessels; and bring the man a present (a little rosin and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds).