Text -- Genesis 44:33-34 (NET)

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 44:34

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

² tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”