²⁰ And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.^(A) His brother is dead,^(B) and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’^(C)

²¹ “Then you said to your servants,^(D) ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’^{(E) 22} And we said to my lord,^(F) ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’^(G)