Genesis 44:22

New American Bible - revised edition

We replied to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; his father would die if he left him.’

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 44:21

Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I might see him.’

Genesis 44:23

But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see me again.’

Genesis 44:30

“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, whose very life is bound up with his, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is missing;