Glancing Through the Scriptures

(KJV.)  GENESIS 43:4-10

The second trip to Egypt

(4)  If thou wilt send out brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

(5)  But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down:  for the man said unto us,  Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

(6)  And Israel said,  Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

(7)  And they said,  The man asked us straitly of our state and of our kindred, saying,  Is your father yet alive?  have ye another brother?  and we told him according to the tenor of these words:  could we certainly know that he would say,  Bring your brother down?

(8)  And Judah said unto Israel his father,  Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go":  that we may live, and not die, bother we, and thou, and also our little ones.

(9)  I will be surety for him;  of my hand shalt, thou require him:  if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before the, then let me bear the blame forever.

(10) For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

ADDENDUM

Why did Joseph say to his brethren;  "Bring your brother down?"

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States of America:  basically, can you count how many times you gave thanks to Jehovah God, this year?