Genesis 44:30-34

New American Standard Bible

³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since ^[a](A)our father’s life is so attached to the boy’s life— ³¹ when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. So your servants will ^(B)bring the gray hair of your servant, our father, down to Sheol in sorrow. ³² For your servant ^(C)accepted responsibility for the boy from my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then ^[b]my father can let me take the blame forever.’ ³³ So now, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear that I may see the evil that would ^[c]overtake my father.”