But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any harm should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.

And we said, We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down to that place and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.

Let Reuben live, and not die, and let his men be numbered.

If we say, We will enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we are also dead. Now therefore, come, let us fall to the camp of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall have died.

And one of his servants answered and said, Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Behold, they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or behold, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of YAH.

Now you are commanded; do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your father and come.

as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke to their hearts.

But your little ones, whom you said would be prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.