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Genesis 44:33-34
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33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 34 For 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]

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