Kejadian 44:20

44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. ¹  The boy’s ²  brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, ³  and his father loves him.’

Kejadian 44:30-34

44:30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. ⁴  44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ⁵  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 44:32 Indeed, ⁶  your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ⁷  my father’s pain.” ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly.

² tn Heb “his”; the referent (the boy just mentioned) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “he, only he, to his mother is left.”

⁴ tn Heb “his life is bound up in his life.”

⁵ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

⁶ tn Or “for.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

⁸ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”