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Genesis 44:29
Genesis 44:29 is verse 29 of Genesis chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
King James Version
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
World English Bible
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Genesis 44:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible
27 And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
29 Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
30 So 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,
31 sees 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
Genesis 42:38But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Genesis 43:14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
Genesis 44:31sees 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.
Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’