Genesis 44:28-30

New Century Version

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