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20 And we answered my Lorde we haue a father that is olde, and a yonge lad which he begat in hys age: and the brother of the sayde lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And hys father loueth hym.
21 And thou saydest vnto thy seruauntes: brynge him vnto me, that I maye sett myne eye vpon him.
22 And we answered my Lorde, that the lad coulde not goo from his father, for yf he shulde leaue his father, he were but deed.
23 Than saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes excepte your youngest brother come with you, loke that ye se my face no moare.
24 And when we came vnto thy seruaunt oure father, we shewed hym what my lorde had sayd:
25 And oure father sayd vnto vs: goo agayne, & bye vs a lytle fode.
26 And we answered: we cannot goo downe. Neuerthelesse: yf oure yongeste brother go wt vs, then wyll we go downe, for we maye not see the mannes face, excepte oure youngest brother be wt vs.
27 And thy seruaunt oure father sayde vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me .ij. sonnes.
28 And the one went out from me, and I sayde: of suertye he is torne in peaces, and I sawe hym not sence.
29 And ye take this also awaye from me. If some mysfortune happen vpon him, ye shall brynge my gray heed in sorowe vnto the graue.
30 Nowe therfore, when I come to thy seruaunt my father, and the lad be not with vs (seynge that his lyfe hangeth by the laddes lyfe)
31 then shall it come to passe, that as soone as he seeth that the lad is not come, he wyll dye. So shall we thy seruauntes bringe the gray hedde of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue.
32 For I thy seruaunt became suertye for the lad before my father and sayde: yf I bringe him not vnto the agayne, I wyll bere the blame vnto my father all my lyfe longe.
33 Nowe therfore let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad, and be my Lordes bondman: and let the lad goo vp wt his brethren.
34 For howe can I goo vp to my father, yf the lad be not with me? onlesse I wolde see the wretchednes that shall come on my father.