Genesis 44:29

29 If you take this one away from me too and anything happens to him, you'll drive this gray-haired old man to his 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 our father said to us, 'You know that my wife [Rachel] gave me two sons.

28 One is gone, and I said, "He must have been torn to pieces!" I haven't seen him since.

29 If you take this one away from me too and anything happens to him, you'll drive this gray-haired old man to his grave.'

30 "Our father's life is wrapped up with the boy's life. If I come [home] without the boy

31 and he sees that the boy isn't [with me], he'll die. The grief would drive our gray-haired old father to his grave.