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 –
31. then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father with evil to the grave.
32. “For your servant went guaranty for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a sinner before my father forever.’
33. “And now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34. “For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”