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فَلَمّا رَجَعوا إِلىٰ أَبيهِم قالوا يا أَبانا مُنِعَ مِنَّا الكَيلُ فَأَرسِل مَعَنا أَخانا نَكتَل وَإِنّا لَهُ لَحافِظونَ

Muhammad Asad

And so, when they returned to their father, [Joseph's brothers] said: "O our father! All grain1 is [to be] withheld from us [in the future unless we bring Benjamin with us]: send, therefore, our brother with us, so that we may obtain our measure [of grain]; and, verily, we shall guard him well!"
  • Lit., "measure [of grain]", here used metonymically in an allusion to Joseph's words (verse 60).