Genesis 44:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,”
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“So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 44:30 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 44:17But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
- Genesis 44:22So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
- Genesis 44:31sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
- Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
- 1 Samuel 18:1After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
- 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- 2 Samuel 18:33The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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