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Genesis - ch 44 v 21 - 34
- And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set mine eye on him.
- And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.
- And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
- And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
- And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
- But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.
- And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
- and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto.
- And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
- And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, -- seeing that his life is bound up with his life,
- it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
- For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days.
- And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
- for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? -- lest I see the evil that would come on my father.
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