“We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 44 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.