Genesis 44:29
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 44:29 in other translations
| BSB | Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’ |
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| WEB | If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ |
| ASV | and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. |
| YLT | when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol. |
| DARBY | And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol. |
| BBE | If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld. |
| Webster | And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. |
What does Genesis 44:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:29
- Genesis 42:38
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 43:14
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
- Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
- Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
- Genesis 44:31
It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
- Psalms 88:3-4
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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Context
- Genesis 44:28
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
- Genesis 44:29
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:30
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
Genesis 44:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y si tomareis también éste de delante de mí, y le aconteciere algún desastre, haréis descender mis canas con dolor á la sepultura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et si vous prenez aussi celui-ci de devant moi, et qu’un accident lui arrive, vous ferez descendre mes cheveux blancs avec tristesse au shéol. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nehmet ihr auch diesen von mir hinweg, und es begegnet ihm ein Unfall, so werdet ihr mein graues Haar mit Unglück hinabbringen in den Scheol. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si tuleritis et istum, et aliquid ei in via contigerit, deducetis canos meos cum mœrore ad inferos. |