Genesis 44:34 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³⁴ Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

³⁴ 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.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father."

Genesis 44:34 Cross References

Genesis 44:33

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

2 Chronicles 34:28

3 And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the countries of the children of Israel: and made all that were left in Israel, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed not from the Lord the God of their fathers.

Esther 8:6

1 And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.

Job 31:29

4 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

Psalm 116:3

0 I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.

Psalm 119:143

50 They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from the law.

Exodus 18:8

1 Now I know that the Lord is great above all gods: because they dealt proudly against them.