Genesis 42:36-38

New King James Version

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.”

³⁷ Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”

³⁸ But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for ^(C)his brother is dead, and he is left alone. ^(D)If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would ^(E)bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”