23. But you said to us, ‘If you don’t bring your youngest brother, you will not be allowed to see me again.’
24. So we went back to our father and told him what you had said.
25. “Later, our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little more food.’
26. We said to our father, ‘We cannot go without our youngest brother. Without our youngest brother, we will not be allowed to see the governor.’
27. Then my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.
28. When one son left me, I thought, “Surely he has been torn apart by a wild animal,” and I haven’t seen him since.