Genesis 44:26

22We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

23You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

24When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

26We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’

27Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

28One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;