Genesis 44:29 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 44:29

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

BSB

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ASV

and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

KJV

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 Gen 42:38.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּלְקַחְתֶּ֧ם	u.le.kach.Tem	and you will take	H3947 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
זֶ֛ה	zeh	this [one]	H2088 →
מֵעִ֥ם	me.'Im	from with	H5973 →
פָּנַ֖י	pa.Nai	presence my	H6440 →
וְקָרָ֣הוּ	ve.ka.Ra.hu	and it will happen to him	H7136 →
אָס֑וֹן	'a.Son	harm	H611 →
וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם	ve.ho.rad.Tem	and you will cause to go down	H3381 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שֵׂיבָתִ֛י	sei.va.Ti	gray hair my	H7872 →
בְּרָעָ֖ה	be.ra.'Ah	in calamity	H7451 →
שְׁאֹֽלָה׃	she.'O.lah	Sheol towards	H7585 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring…
leads to
- Genesis 37:35
  All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 42:4
  But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 37:33
  His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
Through
Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
leads to
- Esther 4:16
  “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast…
- Genesis 17:1
  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Acts 21:14
  When he would not be dissuaded, we fell silent and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
Through
Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
leads to
- Genesis 43:14
  May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
Through
Deuteronomy 31:17
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…
leads to
- Numbers 14:42
  Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

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