22. "We said to you, 'The boy can't leave his father. If he does, his father will die.'
23. "But you told us, 'Your youngest brother must come down here with you. If he doesn't, you won't see my face again.'
24. So we went back to my father. We told him what you had said.
25. "Then our father said, 'Go back. Buy a little more food.'
26. "But we said, 'We can't go down. We'll only go if our youngest brother goes there with us. We can't even see the man's face unless our youngest brother goes with us.'
27. "Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife had two sons by me.
28. One of them went away from me. And I said, "He must have been torn to pieces." I haven't seen him since.
29. What if you take this one from me too and he is harmed? Then you would cause me to die as a sad old man. I would go down into the grave full of pain and suffering.'