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Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

33Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the lad, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:8And Moses told his father-in-law all that LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how LORD delivered them.

2 Chronicles 34:28Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shall be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of it. And they brought back word to

Job 31:29if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:19-34

Judah's Appeal on Behalf of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And… Read the whole commentary →

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