30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(B) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(C) Your servants(D) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(E) in sorrow. 32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’(F)

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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.[a] 31 When he sees the boy is not with us,[b] he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 32 Indeed,[c] 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.’

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 44:30 tn Heb “his life is bound up in his life.”
  2. Genesis 44:31 tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”
  3. Genesis 44:32 tn Or “for.”