So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

They replied, “You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Judah replied, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”