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)

³⁰ “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^(B)