But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “What if some accident happens to him?”

If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”