Genesis - 44:29



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.'

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 44:29.

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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.
and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.
And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.
If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
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.
If you take this one also, and anything happens to him on the way, you will lead my grey hairs down with grief to the grave.'
Et capietis etiam hunc a facie mea, et accidet ei mors, descendereque facietis canitiem meam in malo ad sepulcrum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, (g) ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
(g) You will cause me to die for sorrow.

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:
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 Genesis 42:38.

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