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.
29. And if you also take this one away from before me and an accident happens to him, then you’ll bring my grey hair down to the evil of Sheol.’
30. “Now if I come to your servant my father and the boy isn’t with us, since his life is bound to his life,
31. when he sees that the boy is no more, he’ll die. Then your servants will bring the grey hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.
32. For your servant became pledge for the boy with my father saying, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before my father all my days.’
33. So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave in the boy’s place, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34. For how can I go up to my father and the boy is not with me? Else I must see the evil that would come upon my father!”