Genesis 44:30-32

New American Standard Bible

³⁰So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since ^[a]^(A)our father’s life is so attached to the boy’s life— ³¹when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. So your servants will ^(B)bring the gray hair of your servant, our father, down to Sheol in sorrow. ³²For your servant ^(C)accepted responsibility for the boy from my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then ^[b]my father can let me take the blame forever.’

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Genesis 44:30 Lit his soul is bound with his soul
Genesis 44:32 Lit I will be culpable for all the days before my father

Genesis 44:30-32

King James Version

³⁰Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

³¹It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

³²For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

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Genesis 44:30-32

New International Version

³⁰“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^(B) ³¹sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.^(C) Your servants^(D) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave^(E) in sorrow. ³²Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’^(F)