But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave his father, he would die.’
But he said, “My son will not go down with you—for his brother is dead and he alone remains. And if harm should happen to him along the way you’re going, you’ll bring my grey hair down to Sheol in grief.”
Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can look at him.’
Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you won’t see my face again.’
“Now if I come to your servant my father and the boy isn’t with us, since his life is bound to his life,