Genesis 44:30 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 44:30

28 and the one went out from me, and I said, ^a“Surely he is torn to pieces”; and I have not seen him since.

29 But if you ^atake this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

30 “Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since ^ahis life is bound up in the lad’s life,

31 it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

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

33 Now therefore, please ^alet your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

34 For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would¹ come upon my father?”

Verse Comparison: Genesis 44:30

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

Amplified® Bible
Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life {and} his soul knit with the lad's soul,

Contemporary English Version
That's why Benjamin must be with us when I go back to my father. He loves him so much

Darby English Version
And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, -- seeing that his life is bound up with his life,

Good News Bible
"And now, sir," Judah continued, "if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.

King James Version
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

New American Standard Bible
"Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,

New International Version
"So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,

New King James Version
“Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad does not come with us, since he has bound his life in the lad's life,

Revised Standard Version
Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad's life,

Young's Literal Translation
`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

New English Translation
“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.¹

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