Genesis 43:13
“Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.”
What does Genesis 43:13 mean?
Judah is urging Jacob to let Benjamin go with them back to Egypt to buy more grain during the famine. This wasn't an easy ask, since Benjamin was Jacob's youngest and most beloved son, and Jacob had already lost Joseph years before. But without Benjamin, the Egyptian official (who was actually Joseph in disguise, though they didn't know it) had refused to see them or sell them food. Judah had even pledged his own life as guarantee that Benjamin would return safely. Sometimes the hard choice is the only way forward, and Judah's words here show the tension of a family desperate enough to take a risk, even with their deepest fears.