Genesis 44:29

29 Now you want to take this son away from me also. But something terrible might happen to him, and I would be miserable until the day I die.'

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 my father said to us, 'You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.

28 When one son left me, I thought, "Surely he has been torn apart by a wild animal," and I haven't seen him since.

29 Now you want to take this son away from me also. But something terrible might happen to him, and I would be miserable until the day I die.'

30 Now what will happen if we go home to our father without our youngest brother? He is so important in our father's life that

31 when our father sees the young boy is not with us, he will die. And it will be our fault. We will cause the great sorrow that kills our father.