Genesis 44:18-34

18Then Judah came near to him, and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thy anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him. 22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 23And thou saidst to thy servants, Except your youngest brother shall come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. 24And it came to pass when we came to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. 26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother shall be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother shall be with us. 27And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons : 28And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since: 29And if ye take this also from me, and harm shall befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 30Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life; 31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad return with his brethren. 34For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.1