Genesis 44:34 meaning and explanation

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Genesis 44:34, Berean Standard Bible

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Judah is speaking to Joseph in Egypt, whom the brothers do not yet recognize. He has just offered himself as a slave in Benjamin's place, and verse 34 gives his reason: he cannot return to their father Jacob without the boy.

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