10 And Jacob said: 'Me have ye bereaved of my children! Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. On me has your wickedness come. (JUB) 11 'And he said: 'My son will not go down with you lest perchance he fall sick; for their mother gave birth to two sons, and one has perished, and this one also ye will take from me. If perchance he took a fever on the road, ye would bring down my old age with sorrow unto death.' (JUB) 12 For he saw that their money had been returned to every man in his sack, and for this reason he feared to send him. (JUB)
Book of Jubilees 42:10–12
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