Genesis 44:20-30

20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, aand a young brother, bthe child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21Then you said to your servants, c‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, dhis father would die.’ 23Then you said to your servants, eUnless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’

24“When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25And when four father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me gtwo sons. 28One left me, and I said, hSurely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29If you itake this one also from me, jand harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

30Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
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