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Genesis 44:34

What does Genesis 44:34 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 44:34 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? — lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

Context

v.33Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Esther 8:6

    for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

  • Psalms 119:143

    Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.

  • Jeremiah 52:10

    And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

  • 1 Samuel 2:33

    And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.

  • Exodus 18:8

    And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.

  • Job 31:29

    If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him

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