“And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.”
And we said to my lord: the boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die. The brothers' warning — his father will die if he leaves — is the warning that is about to become the argument for mercy. The application: the warning given in an earlier conversation becomes the grounds for the plea in the later one.
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