Gen 44:20 "We said to my lord, 'We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'
Gen 44:21 "Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 44:22 "But we said to my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
Gen 44:23 "You said to your servants, however, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
Gen 44:24 "Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Gen 44:25 "Our father said, 'Go back, buy us a little food.'
Gen 44:26 "But we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Gen 44:27 "Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons;
Gen 44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces," and I have not seen him since.
Gen 44:29 'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'
Gen 44:30 "Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,
Gen 44:31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Gen 44:32 "For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.'
Gen 44:33 "Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
Gen 44:34 "For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me--for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?"
Gen 45:2 He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.
Gen 45:3 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 ¶ Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come closer to me." And they came closer. And he said, "I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:5 "Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen 45:6 "For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.