27. ‘Your servant my father said to us, “You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28. One of them went away from me, and I said, ‘He has surely been torn to pieces.’ And I have not seen him since.
29. If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my grey head down to the grave in misery.”
30. ‘So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,