38 However, he said: “My son will not go down with you, because his brother is dead and he alone is left.+ If a fatal accident should befall him on the journey you would make, then you would certainly bring down my gray hairs to the Grave*+ in grief.”+

27 Then your slave my father said to us, ‘You well know that my wife bore but two sons to me.+ 28 But one of them left me and I said: “He must surely have been torn to pieces!”+ and I have not seen him until now.