But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup was found, he becomes my slave. And you, go up in peace to your father.”
Genesis 44:30 - The Scriptures 2009 “And now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us – since his own life is bound up in his life – Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life and his soul knit with the lad's soul, American Standard Version (1901) 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; Common English Bible When I now go back to your servant my father without the young man—whose life is so bound up with his— Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if I would have gone to your servant, our father, with the boy not present, (though his life depends upon the life of him) Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore if I shall go to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him): |
But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup was found, he becomes my slave. And you, go up in peace to your father.”
And we said to my master, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ ”
And we said to my master, ‘The boy is not able to leave his father, for if he leaves his father, his father shall die.’ ”
then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father with evil to She’ol.
“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”
And the sovereign was shaken, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said this, “O my son Aḇshalom! My son, my son Aḇshalom, if only I had died instead of you! O Aḇshalom my son, my son!”
And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha’ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawiḏ, and Yehonathan loved him as his own being.
“And if a man rises to pursue you and seek your life, and the life of my master has been bound in the bundle of the living with יהוה your Elohim, then the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.