³ Now Israel^(A) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,^(B) because he had been born to him in his old age;^(C) and he made an ornate^[a] robe^(D) for him.^(E)

⁸ Then Judah^(A) said to Israel^(B) his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.^(C)

³⁰ “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^(B)