Genesis 44:32-34

New Catholic Bible

³² Your servant made himself a pledge for the young one with my father: ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear this guilt before you all my life.’

³³ “Let your servant remain as the slave of my lord instead of the young one. Let the young one return back with his brothers. ³⁴ How could I return to my father without having the young one with me? I could not bear to see the evil that I will have done to my father.”