Genesis 44:29

29 Yf ye shall take this also awaye fro me and some mysfortune happen apon him then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto 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 Then sayde thy servaunt oure father vnto vs. Ye knowe that my wyfe bare me .ij. sonnes.

28 And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie that he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes and I sawe him not sence.

29 Yf ye shall take this also awaye fro me and some mysfortune happen apon him then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto the grave.

30 Now therfore whe I come to thy servaunt my father yf the lad be not with me: seinge that his lyfe hageth by the laddes lyfe

31 then as soone as he seeth that the lad is not come he will dye. So shall we thy servautes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father with sorow vnto the grave.