Genesis 44:22

New King James Version

And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”

Genesis 44:21

Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

Genesis 44:23

But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.’

Genesis 44:30

“Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,