Genesis 44:22

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

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down [to Egypt] with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left [of Rachel’s children]. If any harm or accident should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in sorrow.”

Genesis 44:30

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

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And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

His father would die

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His father would die

Genesis 44:30
Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man’s life,
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down [to Egypt] with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left [of Rachel’s children]. If any harm or accident should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in sorrow.”