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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 44:34 in context
Genesis 44:31–34
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it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
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For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
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Now 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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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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