Genesis 44:30

New American Bible - revised edition

“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, whose very life is bound up with his, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is missing;

Cross References

Genesis 44:17

Joseph said, “Far be it from me to act thus! Only the one in whose possession the goblet was found shall become my slave; the rest of you may go back unharmed to your father.”

Genesis 44:20

So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age. This one’s full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by his mother who is left, his father is devoted to him.’

Genesis 44:22

We replied to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; his father would die if he left him.’

Genesis 44:31

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

Genesis 44:34

How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”

1 Samuel 18:1

By the time David finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan’s life became bound up with David’s life; he loved him as his very self.

1 Samuel 25:29

If any adversary pursues you to seek your life, may the life of my lord be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God; may God hurl out the lives of your enemies as from the hollow of a sling.