Genesis 44:34 - Revised Version 1885

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

For how can I go up to my father if the lad is not with me?–lest I witness the woe and the evil that will come upon my father.

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

How can I go back to my father without the young man? I couldn’t bear to see how badly my father would be hurt.”

For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father."

For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.