²⁷ “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife had two sons by me. ²⁸ One of them went away from me. And I said, “He must have been torn to pieces.” I haven’t seen him since. ²⁹ What if you take this one from me too and he is harmed? Then you would cause me to die as a sad old man. I would go down into the grave full of pain and suffering.’