²² And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

³⁰ “Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since ^(A)his life is bound up in the lad’s life,

³⁸ But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for ^(A)his brother is dead, and he is left alone. ^(B)If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would ^(C)bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”