27And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
29Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
30So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
— Genesis 44:27-30