And he said, God forbid that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Genesis 44:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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; More versionsKing 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): |
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
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.
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.