Genesis 44:28-31
Good News Translation
28 One of them has already left me. He must have been torn to pieces by wild animals, because I have not seen him since he left. 29 If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.’
30-31 “And now, sir,” Judah continued, “if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.
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Genesis 44:28-30
New International Version
28 One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.”(A) And I have not seen him since.(B) 29 If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(C) in misery.’(D)
30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(E) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(F)
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