26. We answered, ‘We can’t go back. We can only go back if our youngest brother is with us. The man won’t see us unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. “Then our father said to us, ‘You know that my wife ⌊Rachel⌋ gave me two sons.
28. One is gone, and I said, “He must have been torn to pieces!” I haven’t seen him since.
29. If you take this one away from me too and anything happens to him, you’ll drive this gray-haired old man to his grave.’
30. “Our father’s life is wrapped up with the boy’s life. If I come ⌊home⌋ without the boy
31. and he sees that the boy isn’t ⌊with me⌋, he’ll die. The grief would drive our gray-haired old father to his grave.
32. “I guaranteed my father that the boy would come back. I said, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can blame me the rest of my life, Father.’
33. Sir, please let me stay and be your slave in the boy’s place, and let the boy go back with his brothers.