24. When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25. Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’
26. We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. 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, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since.
29. If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
30. Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;