Génesis 44:29-34

29 "Y si también os lleváis a éste de mi presencia, y algo malo le sucede, haréis descender mis canas con dolor al Seol."

30 Ahora pues, cuando yo vuelva a mi padre, tu siervo, y el muchacho no esté con nosotros, como su vida está ligada a la vida del muchacho,

31 sucederá que cuando él vea que el muchacho no está con nosotros, morirá. Así pues, tus siervos harán descender las canas de nuestro padre, tu siervo, con dolor al Seol.

32 Porque yo, tu siervo, me hice responsable del muchacho con mi padre, diciendo: "Si no te lo traigo, que lleve yo la culpa delante de mi padre para siempre."

33 Ahora pues, te ruego que quede este tu siervo como esclavo de mi señor, en lugar del muchacho, y que el muchacho suba con sus hermanos.

34 Pues, ¿cómo subiré a mi padre no estando el muchacho conmigo, sin que yo vea el mal que sobrevendrá a mi padre?

Génesis 44:29-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 44

This chapter relates the policy of Joseph in making an experiment of his brethren's regard and affection for Benjamin; he ordered his steward to put every man's money into his sack, and his silver cup in Benjamin's, and when they were got out of the city, to follow after them, and charge them with the theft, as he did; and having searched their sacks, as they desired he would, found the cup with Benjamin, which threw them into the utmost distress, and obliged them to return to Joseph, Ge 44:1-14; who charged them with their ill behaviour towards him; they acknowledge it, and propose to be his servants; but he orders them to depart to their father, retaining Benjamin in servitude, Ge 44:15-17; upon which Judah addressed him in a very polite and affectionate manner, and relates the whole story, both of what passed between Joseph and them, concerning Benjamin, the first time they were in Egypt, and between their father and them upon the same subject, when he directed them to go a second time thither to buy corn, and how he became a surety to his father for him, and therefore proposed to be his bondman now, not being able to see his father's face without Benjamin, Ge 44:18-34.