Genesis 44:22

Good News Translation

and we answered that the boy could not leave his father; if he did, his father would die.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “My son cannot go with you; his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. Something might happen to him on the way. I am an old man, and the sorrow you would cause me would kill me.”

Genesis 44:21

Sir, you told us to bring him here, so that you could see him,

Genesis 44:23

Then you said, ‘You will not be admitted to my presence again unless your youngest brother comes with you.’

Genesis 44:30

“And now, sir,” Judah continued, “if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.