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Genesis 44:30
If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,
Genesis 44:30 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 44:30 in other translations
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;
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,
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;
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In context
27 And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;
28 The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,
29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
30 If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,
31 When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
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