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Genesis 44:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. "
Genesis 44:31
Verse in Context
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29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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Genesis 44:1
"He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth."
Genesis 44:2
"Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken."
Genesis 44:3
"As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys."
Genesis 44:4
"When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?"
Genesis 44:5
"Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”"
Genesis 44:6
"He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them."
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