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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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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And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Genesis 44:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 42:38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
- Genesis 43:14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
- Genesis 42:36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
- Genesis 44:31 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
- Psalms 88:3-4 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Ye shall cause me to die for sorrow.
Ye shall cause me to die for sorrow.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if ye take this also from me,.... His…
And if ye take this also from me,.... His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him:
and mischief befall him; either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it:
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ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; see Gen 42:38.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. mischief befall him] Cf. Gen_42:4; Gen_42:38.
29. mischief befall him] Cf. Gen_42:4; Gen_42:38.
with sorrow] Heb. evil. “Evil” in the sense of “trouble,” as in Psa_107:26, or “calamity,” as in Pro_24:16, a different word from “sorrow” in Gen_42:38.
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the grave] Heb. Sheol. See ch. Gen_37:35, Gen_42:38.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain grave Heb. Sheol, (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
grave Heb. Sheol, (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
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