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Genesis 44:22
“We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.”
Verse in context — Genesis 44
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We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.
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You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.
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We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
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You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.
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It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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