Genesis 44:34

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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  • Esth 8:6 : 6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?
  • Job 31:29 : 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
  • Exod 18:8 : 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
  • 1 Sam 2:33-34 : 33 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age. 34 This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
  • 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 on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.

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  • Gen 44:19-33
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    19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

    20We 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.'

    21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

    22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

    23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

    24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

    26We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'

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

    28and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

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

    31it 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.

    32For 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.'

    33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

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

    37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."

    38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

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

    9I will be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

  • Gen 44:17
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    17He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

  • Gen 43:14
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    14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you 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 am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

  • Gen 37:30
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    30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

  • Gen 27:12
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    12What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

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

    39I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'

    40He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

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    31Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell 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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    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

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    13You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."

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

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    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

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    5but 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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    35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead or the grave.} to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

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    4I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

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    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

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    45until your brother's anger turn 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 bereaved of you both in one day?"

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    9Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

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    4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."