¹⁵ So now I too am afraid of this demon, because it is in love with her and does not harm her; but it kills any man who wishes to come close to her. I am my father’s only child. If I should die, I would bring the life of my father and mother down to their grave in sorrow over me; they have no other son to bury them!”^(A)

³⁵ Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, “No, I will go down mourning to my son in Sheol.”^[a] Thus did his father weep for him.^(A)

³⁸ But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”^(A)

²⁹ If you take this one away from me too, and a disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to Sheol in grief.’

³¹ and your servants will thus send the white head of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.