Genesis 44:20-34

Bishops^{(i) 20} And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him ²¹ And thou saidest vnto thy seruauntes: bryng him vnto me, that I may set my eyes vpon him ²² And we aunswered my Lorde, that the lad could not go from his father, for if he shoulde leaue his father, he were but dead ²³ Then saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes: except your youngest brother come with you, loke that ye see my face no more ²⁴ And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father, we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde ²⁵ And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode ²⁶ And we aunswered, we can not go downe: neuerthelesse, if our youngest brother be with vs, then wyll we go downe, for we may not see the mans face, except our youngest brother be with vs ²⁷ And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I sayd, of a suretie he is torne in peeces, and I sawe him not since ²⁹ And if ye take this also away from me, and destruction come vnto him, ye shall bryng my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue ³⁰ Nowe therefore when I come to thy seruaunt my father, and the lad be not with vs (seing that his life hangeth by the laddes life. ³¹ Then shall it come to passe, that assoone as he seeth that the lad is not come, he wyll dye: so shall we thy seruauntes bryng the gray head of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue ³² For I thy seruaunt became suretie for the lad before my father, and saide: If I bryng hym not vnto thee agayne, I shal beare the blame vnto my father all my lyfe long ³³ Nowe therefore I pray thee, let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad, and be my lordes bondman, and let the lad go vp with his brethren ³⁴ For howe can I go vp to my father, if the ladde be not with me? vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father