Genesis 44:28 meaning and explanation

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:28, Berean Standard Bible

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Judah is quoting his father Jacob to Joseph in Egypt, who is still unrecognized. Judah is pleading for Benjamin's life, and here he recalls Jacob's grief over Joseph, presumed killed by a wild animal years earlier.

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