43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. ¹  Then we will live ²  and not die – we and you and our little ones. 43:9 I myself pledge security ³  for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life. ⁴  43:10 But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back ⁵  twice by now!”