Genesis 44:34

New English Translation

³⁴For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see^[a] my father’s pain.”^[b]

Genesis 44:34 tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose—“I cannot go up lest I see.”
Genesis 44:34 tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”

Genesis 44:34

New International Version

³⁴How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery^(A) that would come on my father.”^(B)

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