²⁰ And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.^(A) His brother is dead,^(B) and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’^(C)

²⁷ “Your servant my father^(A) said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.^{(B) 28} One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.”^(C) And I have not seen him since.^{(D) 29} If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave^(E) in misery.’^(F)