And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'

Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me - seeing that his life hangeth by the lad's life -

Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren.

Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.

When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush

and went and sat her out of sight a great way; as it were a bowshot off. For she said, "I will not see the lad die." And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.

Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will make of him a great people."

And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

and said unto his young men, "Bide here with the ass. I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you."

And Abram said, "See, to me hast thou given no seed: lo, a lad born in my house shall be mine heir!"

Reuben answered them, saying, "Said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? But ye would not hear; And now verily see, his blood is required."

Then said Judah unto Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we, thou and also our children.

And we answered my lord, that the lad could not go from his father, 'For if he should leave his father, he were but a dead man.'

then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come, he will die. So shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow unto the grave.

For I thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father and said, 'If I bring him not unto thee again. I will bear the blame all my life long.'

For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"

And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.

and went again unto his brethren, saying, "The lad is not yonder, and whither shall I go?"

And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."