Genesis 44:29

New American Bible - revised edition

If you take this one away from me too, and a disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to Sheol in grief.’

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, “No, I will go down mourning to my son in Sheol.” Thus did his father weep for him.

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them: “Must you make me childless? Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin away! All these things have happened to me!”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought some disaster might befall him.

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty grant you mercy in the presence of the man, so that he may let your other brother go, as well as Benjamin. As for me, if I am to suffer bereavement, I shall suffer it.”

Genesis 44:31

and your servants will thus send the white head of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will flare up against them; I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become a prey to be devoured, and much evil and distress will befall them. At that time they will indeed say, “Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?”