Genesis 44:29

29 And if ye take this also from me, and harm befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.'

Genesis 44:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:29

And if ye take this also from me
His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him: and mischief befall him;
either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it: ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;
it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; see ( Genesis 42:38 ) .

Genesis 44:29 In-Context

27 And thy servant, my father, said unto us, `Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;

28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces"; and I saw him not since.

29 And if ye take this also from me, and harm befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.'

30 Now 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,

31 it 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.