Genesis 44:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

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  • Gen 44:29 : 29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.
  • Gen 37:26-27 : 26 Then Judah said to his brothers,“What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.
  • 1 Sam 4:17-18 : 17 The messenger replied,“Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!” 18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.
  • 1 Sam 22:22 : 22 Then David said to Abiathar,“I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty of all the deaths in your father’s house!
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

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  • Gen 44:20-30
    11 verses
    90%

    20We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

    21“Then you told your servants,‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’

    22We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

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

    24When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25“Then our father said,‘Go back and buy us a little food.’

    26But we replied,‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

    27“Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

    28The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

    29If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

    30“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

  • Gen 44:32-34
    3 verses
    84%

    32Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

    33“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • Gen 42:36-38
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    36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

    37Then Reuben said to his father,“You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.”

    38But Jacob replied,“My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”

  • Gen 43:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”

    8Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.

    9I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

  • Gen 46:4
    74%

    4I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”

  • Gen 37:35
    74%

    35All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

  • Gen 44:9
    74%

    9If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves!”

  • Gen 48:21
    73%

    21Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 47:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him,“If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

    30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”

  • Gen 50:5
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    5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

  • Gen 42:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.

    21They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

  • Gen 44:17
    72%

    17But Joseph said,“Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”

  • Gen 37:30
    72%

    30returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

  • Gen 24:5
    72%

    5The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

  • Gen 45:13
    72%

    13So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

  • Gen 44:7
    72%

    7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

  • Gen 50:15
    72%

    15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”

  • Gen 33:13
    71%

    13But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    71%

    19He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”