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Genesis 44:34
Genesis 44:34 is verse 34 of Genesis chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
King James Version
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
World English Bible
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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Genesis 44:32–34 · Berean Standard Bible
32 Indeed, 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.’
33 Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
34 For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 2:33And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
1 Samuel 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
2 Chronicles 34:28‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
Esther 8:6For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
Jeremiah 52:10There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
Jeremiah 52:11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
Exodus 18:8Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
Job 31:29If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.