“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
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...
Commenting on Genesis 44:18-34
Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father,.... That is, should he return to him in the land of Canaan with the rest of his brethren: and the lad be not with us; his brother Benjamin, so called here, and in the following verses, though thirty years of age and upwards, see Gen 43:8, seeing that his life is bound up in the...
Gen 44:30-32 “His soul is bound to his soul:” equivalent to, “he clings to him with all his soul.”
Commenting on Genesis 44:30-32