Genesis 44:29

And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

In Context

28And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he hath been torn to pieces; and I have not seen him up to this time.

30And now, 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;

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Cross References

Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I must go down unto my son, mourning, into the grave; thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said unto them, Me ye have bereaved of my children: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and Benjamin ye will take away; all these things are against me.

Genesis 43:14And may God the Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away to you your other brother, and Benjamin. And I, if I am to be bereaved, let me be bereaved.

Deuteronomy 31:17And my anger shall be kindled against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be given to be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall overtake them; and they will say on that day, Is it not, because my God is not in the midst of me, that these evils have overtaken me?

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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