Parallel Verses
Amplified
If you take this one also from me, and harm or an accident happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
New American Standard Bible
If you take this one also from
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.
Holman Bible
If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’
International Standard Version
If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, then it will be death for me and my sad, gray hair!'
A Conservative Version
And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
American Standard Version
and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Bible in Basic English
If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
Darby Translation
And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
Julia Smith Translation
And took ye this also from my face, and harm befell him, and ye brought down my old age with evil to hades.
King James 2000
And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'
Modern King James verseion
And if you take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.'
NET Bible
If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.'
New Heart 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.'
The Emphasized Bible
And I have never seen him since. As surely as ye take, this one also, away from before my face and there befall him any mischief, so surely shall ye bring down my grey hairs, with misfortune to hades.
Webster
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will 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.'
Youngs Literal Translation
when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.
Themes
Children » Grief occasioned by loss of
Children » Instances of » Judah
Judah » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt for corn (grain)
Interlinear
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Seybah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
28
And one [son] went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces,” and I have not seen him since.
29 If you take this one also from me, and harm or an accident happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
30
Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down [to Egypt] with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left [of Rachel’s children]. If any harm or accident should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in sorrow.”
Genesis 42:36
Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”
Genesis 44:31
when he sees that the young man is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in [great] sorrow.
Genesis 43:14
and may
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then My anger will be kindled and burn against them in that day, and I will abandon (turn away from) them and hide My face from them. They will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’
Psalm 88:3-4
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).