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"So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since ^(F1)(C1)our father's life is so attached to the boy's life—

when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. So your servants will ^(C1)bring the gray hair of your servant, our father, down to Sheol in sorrow.

"For your servant ^(C1)accepted responsibility for the boy from my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then ^(F1)my father can let me take the blame forever.'

"So now, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

"For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear that I may see the evil that would ^(F1)overtake my father."