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Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
Genesis 44:34 · Berean Standard Bible
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Genesis 44:34 in other translations
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.
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
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In context
31 sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
33 Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
34 For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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