Genesis 44:29

29 If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

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 Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.

28 One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.

29 If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

30 Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)

31 And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.