Genesis 43:9

I will be surety. Judah repeated then the unavoidable condition for returning to Egypt, hinting at death by famine as the only alternative. He would personally accept responsibility for Benjamin’s safe return. What more could he, or any of them, do? The nobility of character so conspicuous in Judah’s language is illustrated later in his pathetic pleading before Joseph (ch. 44:18–34). A great change must have taken place in his character since the incidents recorded in chs. 37, 38.