Genesis 44:29 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ and if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Common English Bible

²⁹ And if you take this one from me too, something terrible will happen to him, and you will send me—old as I am—to my grave in despair.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ If you take this one also, and anything happens to him on the way, you will lead my grey hairs down with grief to the grave.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 44:29 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might befall him.

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 44:31

when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’