24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25Our father said, `Go again, buy us a little food.`
26We said, `We can`t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man`s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.`
27Your servant, my father, said to us, `You know that my wife bore me two sons:
28and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven`t seen him since.
29If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.`
30Now 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;