Genesis 44:29

29 And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow 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 your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me.

28 One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he must have been torn to pieces," and I have never seen him since.

29 And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'

30 So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us--now his life is bound up with his life--

31 it shall happen [that] when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.