Genesis 44:32

32 What is more, I pledged my life to my father for the boy. I told him that if I did not bring the boy back to him, I would bear the blame all my life.

Genesis 44:32 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:32

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father
Which is another argument used for the release of Benjamin, though he should be detained for him, which he offers to be: saying, if I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame unto
my father for ever; (See Gill on Genesis 43:9).

Genesis 44:32 In-Context

30 "And now, sir," Judah continued, "if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.

32 What is more, I pledged my life to my father for the boy. I told him that if I did not bring the boy back to him, I would bear the blame all my life.

33 And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.

34 How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."