26. “But we said, ‘We are not able to go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down, for we are not able to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons,
28. and the one went out from me, and I said, “Truly, he is torn, torn to pieces!” And I have not seen him since.
29. ‘And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall bring down my grey hair with evil to the grave.’
30. “And now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us – since his own life is bound up in his life –