^{20 Ref} We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

^{21 Ref} You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

^{22 Ref} We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

^{23 Ref} You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

^{24 Ref} It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

^{25 Ref} Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

^{26 Ref} We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'

^{27 Ref} Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

^{28 Ref} and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

^{29 Ref} If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

^{30 Ref} Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;