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22And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

Genesis 44:22

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 18-34)

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 Benjamin than the rest were, and more solicitous to bring him off; or he thought himself under greater obligations to attempt it than the rest, because he had passed his word to his father for his safe ret...

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