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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 44: 21 And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Genesis 44: 22 And we said unto my lord: The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis 44: 23 And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Genesis 44: 24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44: 25 And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.
Genesis 44: 26 And we said: We cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis 44: 27 And thy servant my father said unto us: Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
Genesis 44: 28 and the one went out from me, and I said: Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since;
Genesis 44: 29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 44: 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul;
Genesis 44: 31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 
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