21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can look at him.’
22. But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave his father, he would die.’
23. Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you won’t see my face again.’
24. “Now when we went up to your servant, my father, we told him my lord’s words.
25. Then our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little grain for food.’
26. So we said, ‘We won’t go down unless we have our youngest brother with us—then we’ll go down. For we won’t see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You yourselves know that my wife bore me two sons.
28. One went out from me, so I said, “He must have been torn to shreds,” and I haven’t seen him since.