World English Bible
Genesis 44:29
“If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
Verse in context — Genesis 44
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Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
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and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
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If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
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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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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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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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