Genesis 44:27-34

²⁷And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

²⁸When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

²⁹Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

³⁰So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

³¹sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

³²Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’

³³Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

³⁴For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

— Genesis 44:27-34

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Cross References for Genesis 44:27-34

• Genesis 42:38
• 1 John 3:16
• Genesis 46:19
• Genesis 37:33
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• Genesis 42:36
• 1 Samuel 18:1
• Genesis 43:14
• Genesis 37:35

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