19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
20. And we said to my lord, We have a father–an old man–and a young [brother, the] child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's [offspring], and his father loves him.
21. And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.
22. And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should do so, his father would die.
23. And you told your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you shall not see my face again.
24. And when we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.
25. And our father said, Go again and buy us a little food.
26. But we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother is with us.
27. And your servant my father said to us, You know that [Rachel] my wife bore me two sons: