Genesis 44:29

29 and if ye take this one also from me and some disaster should befall him, ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.

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 thy slave 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 have not seen him since;

29 and if ye take this one also from me and some disaster should befall him, ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.

30 Now therefore when I come to thy slave my father, and the lad is not with us, seeing that his soul is bound up in the lad’s soul,

31 it shall come to pass when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy slaves shall bring the gray hairs of thy slave our father down with sorrow to Sheol.