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Summary

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

Bible References

His father would die

Genesis 44:30
And now if I came to thy servant my father, and the youth not with us, for his soul is bound upon his soul,
Genesis 42:38
And he will say, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother died, and he alone was left: and harm meeting him in the way in which ye shall go, and ye bring down my old age with grief to hades.