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Genesis 42:38 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Genesis 42:38

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36 Jacob, 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.”

37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

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

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Genesis 42:1

"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”"

Genesis 42:2

"He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”"

Genesis 42:3

"Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt."

Genesis 42:4

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

Genesis 42:5

"The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan."

Genesis 42:6

"Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth."

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