31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the grey head of our father down to the grave 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!”

33 ‘Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

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