25. “Later, our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some more food.’
26. We said to our father, ‘We cannot go without our youngest brother. The governor said he will not sell us grain again until he sees our youngest brother.’
27. Then my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.
28. I let one son go away, and he was killed by a wild animal. And I haven’t seen him since.
29. If you take my other son away from me, and something happens to him, I will be sad enough to die.’
30. Now, imagine what will happen when we go home without our youngest brother—he is the most important thing in our father’s life!
31. Our father will die if he sees that the boy isn’t with us—and it will be our fault. We will send our father to his grave a very sad man.
32. “I took responsibility for the young boy. I told my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me for the rest of my life.’
33. So now I beg you, please let the boy go back with his brothers, and I will stay and be your slave.
34. I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I am very afraid of what would happen to my father.”