^{20 Ref} And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

^{21 Ref} And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

^{22 Ref} And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

^{23 Ref} But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

^{24 Ref} And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

^{25 Ref} And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.

^{26 Ref} And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

^{27 Ref} And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

^{28 Ref} The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,

^{29 Ref} If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

^{30 Ref} If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

^{31 Ref} When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

^{32 Ref} For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

^{33 Ref} So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

^{34 Ref} For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?