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Genesis 44:33

Verse 33 of 34. The 44th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

30Now 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;

31it 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.

32For 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.’

33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

34For 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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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.