Genesis 43:8

The Passion Translation

Then Judah spoke up and said to Israel, “Father, I promise to guarantee his safety with my life. You can hold me personally responsible if I don’t return with him. I’ll bear the blame before you for the rest of my life if I fail to bring him safely back to you! You have my promise. Entrust him to my care, and let us be on our way, so that we all don’t die of starvation—we and you and all our children—we will live and not die!

Cross References

Genesis 42:2

I hear there is grain in Egypt; go there and buy some for us so we don’t all starve to death.”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied, “I can’t let my son Benjamin go with you. For his brother is dead, and of Rachel’s sons, he alone is left. If he were to meet with disaster on your journey, I would die of grief! You will send my white hair and broken heart sorrowing down to the grave!”

Genesis 44:20

We answered my lord, ‘We have an aged father and our youngest brother, who is a child of his old age. The child’s full brother is dead, so now he is the only child left of his mother, and his father loves him very much.’

Genesis 44:26

We answered, ‘We can only return to Egypt if we take our youngest brother with us. We won’t see the man’s face again, if he doesn’t see our youngest brother.’

Genesis 45:19

Tell them also: ‘Take Egyptian wagons with you for your wives and little ones and bring their father with them.

Genesis 50:21

Then with more kind, reassuring words, Joseph comforted his brothers.

Genesis 50:8

All of Joseph’s household and all his brothers and their father’s household went, too. Only the children and livestock remained behind in Goshen.

Psalm 118:17

You will not let them kill me, but I will live to tell the world what the Lord has done for me.