Genesis 44:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

We said to my lord, ‘The boy 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 alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 44:21

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

Genesis 44:23

Then 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 boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,