“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.

“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.

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”