Genesis 44:22
We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
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Genesis 44:22
We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
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Genesis 44:23
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
Genesis 44:24
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44:25
Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
Genesis 44:26
We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
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Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44:28
One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
Genesis 44:30
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;
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.’
Genesis 44:33
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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.”
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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.’
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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.
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