Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Genesis 44:34 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. |
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Then Yosef couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, *Cause every man to go out from me!* No one else stood with him, while Yosef made himself known to his brothers.
Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in shalom, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?*
*If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of She'ol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your mitzvot are my delight.
Moshe told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Par`oh and to the Egyptians for Yisra'el's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.