Genesis 44:29

29 What if you take this one from me too and he is harmed? Then you would cause me to die as a sad old man. I would go down into the grave full of pain and suffering.'

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 had two sons by me.

28 One of them went away from me. And I said, "He must have been torn to pieces." I haven't seen him since.

29 What if you take this one from me too and he is harmed? Then you would cause me to die as a sad old man. I would go down into the grave full of pain and suffering.'

30 "So now, what will happen if the boy isn't with us when I go back to my father? His life is closely tied up with the boy's life.

31 When he sees that the boy isn't with us, he'll die as a sad old man. Because of us, he'll go down into the grave full of sorrow.