28. And the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he was torn in pieces,” and I have not seen him since.
29. And if you take this one also from me and he is harmed, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.’
30. “Now therefore when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
31. when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave.
32. For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I fail to bring him to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.’
33. “Now therefore, please let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34. For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would find my father?”