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30 “Now, therefore, when I shall come to your servant, my father, and the child is not with us (seeing that his life depends on the child’s life),

31 “then (when he shall see that the child has not come) he will die. So shall your servants bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to the grave with sorrow.

32 “Doubtless, your servant became surety for the child to my father; and, if I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.

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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) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(C) Your servants(D) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(E) in sorrow. 32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’(F)

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