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28 and one of them went away and never returned. Doubtless he was torn to pieces by some wild animal. I have never seen him since. 29 Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[a]

30 “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.

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Footnotes

  1. 44:29 Hebrew to Sheol; also in 44:31.

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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