Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up unto my father, should the lad, not be with me? lest I look on the calamity, that shall find out my father,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, I pray thee let thy servant remain instead of the lad, as servant to my lord,—but as for the lad, let him go up with his brethren.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:8Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law, all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians, for Israel’s sake,—all the hardship which had befallen them by the way, and how Yahweh had delivered them.

2 Chronicles 34:28Behold me! gathering thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy sepulchres in peace, and thine eyes shall not look upon all the calamity which, I, am bringing in upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they returned, unto the king, the message.

Job 31:29If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him;—

Psalms 119:143Straitness and distress, have befallen me, Thy commandments, are my dear delights.

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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