26. And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.
27. Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore two.
28. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him: and hitherto he appeareth not.
29. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.
30. Therefore if I shall go to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)
31. And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.
32. Let me be tht proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.
33. Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.
34. For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.