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Genesis 44:28-30
International Standard Version
Genesis 44:28-30
International Standard Version
28 One of them left me, so I concluded “I’m certain that he has been torn to pieces,” and I haven’t seen him since then. 29 If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, then it will be death for me and my sad, gray hair!’[a]
30 “So when I go back to your servant, my father, and the young man isn’t with us, since he’s constantly living life focused on his son,[b]
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- Genesis 44:29 Lit. then you’ll send me and my gray hair to Sheol; i.e. to the realm of the dead
- Genesis 44:30 Lit. since his soul is bound to his son’s soul
Genesis 44:28-30
New International Version
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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