Genesis 42:38

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Summary

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

His brother

Genesis 44:20

If mischief

Genesis 42:4

Genesis 44:29

Bring

General references

Genesis 43:13

Bible References

His brother

And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.

And he discerned it, and said, It is my son's vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces!

And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, yet young; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.

If mischief

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.

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.

Bring

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

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.

And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto this generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

Even to old age, I am HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry you: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.

General references

And take your brother, and arise, go again to the man.