26. So we reminded him, ‘We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.’
27. Then your servant my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife bore me two sons.
28. One of them, however, has gone away from me, and I said, “He must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts!” I have not seen him since.