Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father,.... That is, should he return to him in the land of Canaan with the rest of his brethren:
and the lad be not with us; his brother Benjamin, so…
- The Ten Brothers Were Tested Joseph has had the satisfaction of seeing his brother Benjamin safe and well. He has heard his brothers acknowledging their guilt concerning himself. He resolves to put…
We have here a most ingenious and pathetic speech which Judah made to Joseph on Benjamin's behalf, to obtain his discharge from the sentence passed upon him. Perhaps Judah was a better friend to…
Cambridge Bible
his life … the lad's life Better, as R.V. marg., his soul is knit with the lad's soul. See 1Sa 18:1, "the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." It…
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