Genesis 42:36-38

New American Standard Bible

³⁶ And their father Jacob said to them, “You have ^(A)deprived me of my sons: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.” ³⁷ Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my ^[a]care, and I will return him to you.” ³⁸ But ^[b]Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his ^(B)brother is dead, and he alone is left. ^(C)If harm should happen to him on the journey ^[c]you are taking, then you will ^(D)bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”