29 If you take this one also from [a]me, and harm befalls him, you will (A)bring my gray hair down to Sheol in [b]sorrow.’ 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since [c](B)his life is bound up in the lad’s life, 31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will (C)bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 44:29 Lit my face
  2. Genesis 44:29 Lit evil
  3. Genesis 44:30 Lit his soul is bound with his soul

29 If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(A) in misery.’(B)

30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(C) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(D) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(E) Your servants(F) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(G) in sorrow.

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