We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
He said, *My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol.*
You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
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;