Genesis 44:34
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New International Version (©1984)
How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father."

New Living Translation (©2007)
For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!"

English Standard Version (©2001)
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me-- for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
How could I go back to my father if the boy isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's misery!"

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

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

Darby Bible Translation
for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

English Revised Version
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Webster's Bible Translation
For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.

World English Bible
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."

Young's Literal Translation
for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

Geneva Study Bible

For {h} 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.

(h) Meaning, he would rather remain as their prisoner, than to return and see his father in sorrow.

King James Translators' Notes

come...: Heb. find my father

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:18-34 Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The apostle, when discoursing of the mediation of Christ, observes, that our Lord sprang out of Judah, Heb 7:14; and he not only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a Surety for them, testifying therein tender concern, both for his Father and for his brethren. Jesus, the great antitype of Joseph, humbles and proves his people, even after they have had some tastes of his loving-kindness. He brings their sins to their remembrance, that they may exercise and show repentance, and feel how much they owe to his mercy.


Genesis 44:33 "Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, "Have everyone go out from me." So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. (NASB ©1995)

Boy Evil Fear Find Me-For Misery Overtake Peradventure Perhaps Youth


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.

lest. 1Sa 2:33,34 2Ch 34:28 Es 8:6 Jer 52:10,11

come on. Heb. find. Ex 18:8 Job 31:29 Ps 116:3 119:143

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