Genesis 44:34

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy is not with me?— lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

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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, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:8Moses [Drawn out] told his father-in-law all that Adonai had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery] for Israel [God prevails]’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Adonai delivered them.

Psalms 119:143צ ( Tzar-vomatzohk, Adversary-and distress) Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. 2 Your mitzvot ·instructions· are my delight. 1

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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