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Genesis 44:34

Parents and childrenGrief

32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
KJV
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
WEB
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.”
ASV
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
DARBY
for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.
BLB
For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy [is] not with me? Lest I see the evil that will find my father.”
ÅB
For hvordan skulle jeg dra hjem til min far uten at gutten var med meg? Jeg kunne ikke se på den sorg som ville komme over min far.
OTB
Hvordan kan jeg vende tilbake til min far hvis gutten ikke er med meg? Jeg frykter å se den elendighet som ville ramme min far.”
B1930
For hvorledes skulde jeg dra hjem til min far uten at gutten var med mig? Jeg kunde ikke se på den sorg som vilde komme over min far.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Esther 8:6

    For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

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  • Exodus 18:8

    And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

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  • Job 31:29

    If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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  • Psalms 116:3

    The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

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  • Psalms 119:143

    Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

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  • 1 Samuel 2:33–34

    And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

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  • 2 Chronicles 34:28

    Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

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  • Jeremiah 52:10–11

    And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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