World English Bible
Genesis 44:34
“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.”
Verse in context — Genesis 44
32
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.
33
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34
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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