28. When one son left me, I thought, “Surely he has been torn apart by a wild animal,” and I haven’t seen him since.
29. Now you want to take this son away from me also. But something terrible might happen to him, and I would be miserable until the day I die.’
30. Now what will happen if we go home to our father without our youngest brother? He is so important in our father’s life that
31. when our father sees the young boy is not with us, he will die. And it will be our fault. We will cause the great sorrow that kills our father.
32. “I gave my father a guarantee that the young boy would be safe. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.’