²⁹ But if you ^(A)take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

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.”

¹⁴ And may God ^(A)Almighty ^(B)give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. ^(C)If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”

¹⁷ Then My anger shall be ^(A)aroused against them in that day, and ^(B)I will forsake them, and I will ^(C)hide My face from them, and they shall be ^[a]devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ^(D)‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is ^(E)not among us?’

³¹ it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, “You have ^(A)bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take ^(B)Benjamin. All these things are against me.”