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 44:30 in other translations
| BSB | So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life, |
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| WEB | Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; |
| ASV | Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life; |
| YLT | ‘And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul), |
| DARBY | And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, — seeing that his life is bound up with his life, |
| BBE | If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one, |
| Webster | Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life) |
What does Genesis 44:30 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 44:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:30
- 1 Samuel 18:1
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
- Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
- 1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 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.
- Genesis 44:17
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
- 2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
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- 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 44:31
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.
Genesis 44:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ahora, pues, cuando llegare yo á tu siervo mi padre, y el mozo no fuere conmigo, como su alma está ligada al alma de él, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et maintenant, si je viens vers ton serviteur, mon père, et que le jeune homme à l’âme duquel son âme est étroitement liée ne soit pas avec nous, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nun, wenn ich zu deinem Knechte, meinem Vater, komme, und der Knabe ist nicht bei uns, -und seine Seele hängt an dessen Seele, - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Igitur si intravero ad servum tuum patrem nostrum, et puer defuerit (cum anima illius ex hujus anima pendeat), |