19. “My master asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
20. “And we said to my master, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
21. “And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, and let me set my eyes on him.’
22. “And we said to my master, ‘The boy is not able to leave his father, for if he leaves his father, his father shall die.’
23. “But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you do not see my face again.’
24. “And it came to be, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my master.
25. “And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’
26. “But we said, ‘We are not able to go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down, for we are not able to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons,
28. and the one went out from me, and I said, “Truly, he is torn, torn to pieces!” And I have not seen him since.
29. ‘And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall bring down my grey hair with evil to the grave.’
30. “And now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us – since his own life is bound up in his life –