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Genesis 42:36-38
Christian Standard Bible
Genesis 42:36-38
Christian Standard Bible
36 Their father Jacob said to them, “It’s me that you make childless. Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”
37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You can kill my two sons if I don’t bring him back to you. Put him in my care,[a] and I will return him to you.”
38 But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.(A) If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”(B)
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