Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
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Interpretation
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them.
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This thought runs through Genesis 44:29-33.