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:
28. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
29. And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).
30. Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life and his soul knit with the lad's soul,
31. When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will be responsible for his death and will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32. For your servant became security for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.
33. Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers.
34. For how can I go up to my father if the lad is not with me?–lest I witness the woe and the evil that will come upon my father.