# For if we had not delayed

[Judah](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/judah) is describing something that could have happened in the past but did not. [Judah](rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/judah) is scolding his father for waiting so long to send his sons to Egypt to get more food. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])

# we would have come back here a second time

"we would have returned twice"