“Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;”
So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life. The urgency of the connection — whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life — is Judah's argument for the severity of the consequence. The application: the argument that the loss of one will kill the other is the argument from covenant love at its most vulnerable.
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