Genesis 44:30

The Passion Translation

Judah continued, “My lord, if I went to your servant, my father, without the boy, and he saw that the boy was not with us, he would die! His very life is wrapped up with the life of the boy. Now he is so old that the grief of his loss would kill him.

Cross References

Genesis 44:17

“No,” Joseph commanded. “Only the one who stole my silver goblet will be my slave; the rest of you will go on home in peace to your father.”

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 44:22

We said to my lord, ‘But he cannot leave his father; if he were to leave him, his father would die.’