Genesis 44:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

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  • Esth 8:6 : 6 For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. 11 And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
  • Exod 18:8 : 8 And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.
  • 1 Sam 2:33-34 : 33 But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men. 34 And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.
  • 2 Chr 34:28 : 28 See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.

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    19My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

    20And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

    21And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

    22And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

    23But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

    24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

    25And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.

    26And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

    27And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

    28The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,

    29If 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.

    30If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

    31When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

    32For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    33So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

  • Gen 42:36-38
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    36And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

    37And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

    38And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

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    8Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    9Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

  • Gen 44:17
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    17Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

  • Gen 43:14
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    14So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

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    5My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

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    30He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?

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    12If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.

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    38But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

    39And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me?

    40And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

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    31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

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    5And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

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    13Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

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    7And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

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    5And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

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    4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

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    4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.