19. My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother? ’
20. and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him to me so that I can see him.’
22. But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
23. Then you said to your servants, ‘If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.’
24. “This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.
25. But our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us some food.’
26. We told him, ‘We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother isn’t with us, we cannot see the man.’