“And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I may set eyes on him.' And we said to my lord, ‘The young man cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' And you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother come down with you, you will see my face no more.' ”
This is an expansion on the words in Genesis 42 but we must recognise that more was said than was recorded there. The point is again to emphasis the importance of the young man to his father. Without realising it Judah is showing how much he has changed. Now his concern is not for himself but for his father, and he does not mind about his father's favouritism.
“That I might set my eyes on him.” In other words that he may show him favour. Now he intends to show him anything but favour.