rsv Genesis:44:20-34
rsv@Genesis:44:20 @ And we said to my lord, `We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father loves him.'
rsv@Genesis:44:21 @ Then you said to your servants, `Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.'
rsv@Genesis:44:22 @ We said to my lord, `The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
rsv@Genesis:44:23 @ Then you said to your servants, `Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'
rsv@Genesis:44:24 @ When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.
rsv@Genesis:44:25 @ And when our father said, `Go again, buy us a little food,'
rsv@Genesis:44:26 @ we 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.'
rsv@Genesis:44:27 @ Then your servant my father said to us, `You know that my wife bore me two sons;
rsv@Genesis:44:28 @ one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.
rsv@Genesis:44:29 @ If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'
rsv@Genesis:44:30 @ Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad's life,
rsv@Genesis:44:31 @ when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
rsv@Genesis:44:32 @ For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, `If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.'
rsv@Genesis:44:33 @ Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.
rsv@Genesis:44:34 @ For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father."