Genesis 44:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

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  • Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I endure to see the disaster that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my family?
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your commandments are my delights.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
  • Exod 18:8 : 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the hardships that had come upon them along the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
  • 1 Sam 2:33-34 : 33 And any of yours whom I do not cut off from my altar shall bring sorrow to your eyes and grief to your heart: and all the increase of your house shall die in the prime of their life. 34 And this shall be a sign to you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; they shall both die on the same day.
  • 2 Chr 34:28 : 28 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your 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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  • Gen 44:19-33
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    87%

    19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

    20 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

    21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.

    22 And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

    23 And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.

    24 And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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

    26 And we said, We cannot 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.

    27 And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

    28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:

    29 And if you take this also from me, and harm befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

    30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

    31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

    32 For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

    33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant stay instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

  • Gen 42:36-38
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    36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

    37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I do not bring him back to you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to you again.

    38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: if harm befalls him on the journey in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • Gen 43:8-9
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    8 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, you, and also our little ones.

    9 I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:

  • Gen 44:17
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    17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go up in peace to your father.

  • Gen 43:14
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    14 And may God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

  • Gen 50:5
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    5 My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die: in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  • Gen 37:30
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    30 And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

  • Gen 27:12
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    12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver; and I will bring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.

  • Gen 24:38-40
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    38 but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

    39 And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

    40 But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house.

  • Gen 46:31
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    31 And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Gen 24:5
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    5 And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"

  • Gen 45:13
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    13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 31:5
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    5 And said to them, I see your father's expression, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

  • Gen 44:7
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    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

  • Gen 43:5
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    5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.

  • Gen 37:35
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    35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave mourning my son. Thus his father wept for him.

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    4 I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes.

  • Gen 33:13
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    13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me; and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

  • Gen 27:45
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    45 Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send and get you from there: why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

  • Gen 45:9
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    9 Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

  • Gen 42:4
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    4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps harm befall him.