And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’

and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, [his father] would die.