³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age,^(A) and he made a long-sleeved robe^[a] for him.

⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel, ‘Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die – neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

³⁰ ‘So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us – his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life –