^{20 Ref} and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

^{21 Ref} `And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him;

^{22 Ref} and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

^{23 Ref} and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

^{24 Ref} `And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

^{25 Ref} and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,

^{26 Ref} and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us.

^{27 Ref} `And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,

^{28 Ref} and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn -- torn! and I have not seen him since;

^{29 Ref} when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

^{30 Ref} `And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),