³⁵ All his sons and daughters stood by^[a] him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.”^[b] So Joseph’s^[c] father wept for him.

³⁸ But Jacob^[a] replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.^[b] If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair^[c] in sorrow to the grave.”^[d]