6. If your father notices that I am not at table, tell him that I begged your permission to hurry home to Bethlehem, since it's the time for the annual sacrifice there for my whole family.
7. If he says, ‘All right,’ I will be safe; but if he becomes angry, you will know that he is determined to harm me.
8. Please do me this favour, and keep the sacred promise you made to me. But if I'm guilty, kill me yourself! Why take me to your father to be killed?”