창세기 43:4 미드라쉬: Bereshit Rabbah & Sefer HaYashar (midrash)

“The famine was severe in the land” (Genesis 43:1).
“It was, when they had consumed the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them: Return, acquire a little food for us” (Genesis 43:2).
“Judah said to him, saying: The man forewarned us, saying: You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you” (Genesis 43:3).
“If you send our brother with us, we will go down and acquire food for you” (Genesis 43:4).
“But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us: You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you” (Genesis 43:5).
“The famine was severe… It was, when they had consumed…Judah said to him… If you send… But if you will not send…” – They said to [Jacob]: What, will he say to us reasonable matters and we respond to him with nonsense?⁵⁹They argued to Jacob that Joseph had made a reasonable demand by saying that they should bring Benjamin to Egypt in order to prove the veracity of their claims. If the brothers were to return without Benjamin, and say that they could not bring him lest he be harmed along the way, Joseph could be expected to reject that explanation as nonsensical.
“Israel said: Why have you done me wrong, to tell the man that you have another brother?” (Genesis 43:6).
“Israel said: Why have you done me wrong…” – Rabbi Levi in the name of Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina: Jacob never spoke nonsense.⁶⁰Jacob never attributed his troubles to chance; he always realized that God was directing the events of his life – except for on this occasion (Etz Yosef). Rather, this is what the Holy One blessed be He said: ‘I am involved in crowning his son in Egypt, and he says: “Why have you done me wrong?”’ That is what is said: “[Why do you say, Jacob…]: My way is hidden from the Lord, and from my God” (Isaiah 40:27).
“They said: The man asked regarding us and regarding our relatives, saying: Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother? We told him regarding those matters; could we know that he would say: Bring your brother down?” (Genesis 43:7).
“They said: The man asked [regarding us and regarding our relatives]” – Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: He revealed to us even the wood of our cradles.⁶¹The word “our relatives [moladtenu]” can also be understood to mean “our birthplace” or “the conditions of our birth." Joseph knew what their cradles had been made out of, and asked if they still existed (Etz Yosef).
“Judah said to Israel his father: Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, and we will live, and not die, both we, and you, and our children” (Genesis 43:8).
“I will guarantee him; from me you can demand him; if I do not bring him back to you, and present him before you, I will have sinned to you forever” (Genesis 43:9).
“Judah said to Israel his father” – it is preferable for one person to be in a state of uncertainty than for all of us to be in a state of certainty.⁶²If Benjamin does not accompany us, we will all certainly starve to death. “I will guarantee him…forever [kol hayamim]” – this is the World to Come, which is entirely day [shekulo yom].⁶³I will have sinned against you even in the World to Come.

And when the year came around, the sons of Jacob journeyed from Shechem, and they came ‎unto Hebron to Isaac, their father, and they dwelt there, only their sheep and cattle and all ‎belonging to them, they drove daily for pasture unto Shechem, for there was good and fat ‎pasture about there in those days. And Jacob and his sons and all their households dwelt in the ‎valley of Hebron. And it came to pass on those days and in that year, which was the one ‎hundredth year of Jacob’s life, and the tenth of his return from Padan-Aram, that Leah, Jacob's ‎wife, died; and she was fifty one years of age at the time of her dying in Hebron. And Jacob ‎and his sons buried her in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought from ‎the sons of Heth for a burial ground. And the sons of Jacob dwelt with their father in the valley ‎of Hebron, and all the inhabitants of the land knew their strength and their fame was all over ‎the land. And Joseph, and Benjamin, his brother, the sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were quite ‎young in those days, and they did not go forth with their brothers in the war against the seven ‎cities of the Amorites. And when Joseph saw the strength and greatness of his brothers he ‎lauded and praised them, but he considered himself greater than they and he thought himself ‎above them. And his father Jacob loved him, indeed, more than his other brothers, and he ‎made unto him a coat of many colors out of his love to him. And when Joseph saw himself ‎more beloved by his father than all his brothers, he continued to regard himself far above his ‎brothers, and he brought unto his father evil reports concerning them. And when the sons of ‎Jacob saw all the actions of their brother Joseph against them, and that their father loved him ‎best of all, they hated him and they could not speak to him peaceably all the time.‎

And Joseph was seventeen years old, and he still continued to regard himself above his ‎brothers and to exalt himself above them. And at that time Joseph dreamed a dream, and he ‎came unto his brothers to tell them of his dream, and he said unto them: I dreamed a dream, ‎and behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood ‎upright, and behold your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. And ‎his brothers said unto him: What is the meaning of this dream that thou didst dream? Dost ‎thou think in thine heart to govern and to rule over us. And Joseph came also unto his father ‎informing him of his dream, and Jacob heard the words of his mouth and he kissed him and ‎Jacob blessed Joseph. And when the sons of Jacob saw that their father had kissed and ‎blessed Joseph and that he loved him so dearly, they became jealous of him and they hated ‎him still more. And afterwards Joseph dreamed another dream and he related it unto his ‎father in the presence of his brothers, and he said unto his father and brothers: Behold, I have ‎dreamed another dream, and lo, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars bowed down ‎before me. And Jacob heard the words of Joseph and his dream, and he saw that his brothers ‎hated Joseph on account of these words, and Jacob rebuked Joseph in the presence of his ‎brothers, saying: What is the meaning of this dream which thou hast dreamed that thou ‎exaltest thyself over thy brothers who are greater than thou. Thinkest thou perhaps in thine ‎heart that we will come, I and thy mother and thy eleven brothers to bow down before thee, ‎that thou speakest these words. And his brothers were jealous of him concerning his words ‎and dreams and their hatred against him increased. And Jacob observed and kept the dreams ‎within his heart.‎