Genesis 44:26-30

But we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;

and the one left me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces,” and I have not seen him since.

If you also take this one from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since our father’s life is so attached to the boy’s life—