New Century Version

Genesis 44:30-34 New Century Version (NCV)

30. Now what will happen if we go home to our father without our youngest brother? He is so important in our father’s life that

31. when our father sees the young boy is not with us, he will die. And it will be our fault. We will cause the great sorrow that kills our father.

32. “I gave my father a guarantee that the young boy would be safe. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.’

33. So now, please allow me to stay here and be your slave, and let the young boy go back home with his brothers.

34. I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn’t stand to see my father that sad.”