Genesis 44:29

29 'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will ¹bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'

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 "Your servant my father said to us, 'You 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 'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'

30 "Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,

31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:31

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "my face"
• [b]. Lit "evil"