Genesis 44:20-22

New American Standard Bible 1995

²⁰ We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and ^(A)a little child of his old age. Now ^(B)his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’ ²¹ Then you said to your servants, ‘^(C)Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.’ ²² But we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, ^[a]his father would die.’