24. And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.
25. And when our father said, ‘Buy a little food for us,’
26. then we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. Then your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me.
28. One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he must have been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since.
29. And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.’
30. So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—now his life is bound up with his life—
31. it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.
32. For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever.
33. So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34. For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I do not want to see the misery which will find my father.”