Verse 38
Genesis 42:38
World English Bible, British Edition
38
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring
down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר לֹֽא יֵרֵ֥ד בְּנִ֖/י עִמָּ/כֶ֑ם כִּֽי אָחִ֨י/ו מֵ֜ת וְ/ה֧וּא לְ/בַדּ֣/וֹ נִשְׁאָ֗ר וּ/קְרָאָ֤/הוּ אָסוֹן֙ בַּ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּֽלְכוּ בָ֔/הּ וְ/הוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם אֶת שֵׂיבָתִ֛/י בְּ/יָג֖וֹן שְׁאֽוֹלָ/ה
English Translation
And he said, "I will not go down with you; for my brother is dead, and he alone is left, and calamity will overtake you on the way that you go, and you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
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Chapter 42 Context
1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons,
“Why do you look at one ano...
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2
He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down
there, and buy for us from ther...
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3
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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4
But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers;
for he said, “Lest perhaps harm...
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5
The sons of Israel came to buy amongst those who came, for the famine
was in the land of Canaan.
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6
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the
people of the land. Joseph’s br...
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7
Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognised them, but acted like a stranger
to them, and spoke roughl...
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8
Joseph recognised his brothers, but they didn’t recognise him.
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9
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamt about them, and said to
them, “You are spies! You have...
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10
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come
to buy food.
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11
We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not
spies.”
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12
He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness
of the land!”
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13
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons
of one man in the land of Canaan; and b...
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14
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are
spies!’
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15
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not
go out from here, unless your you...
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16
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound,
that your words may be tested...
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17
He put them all together into custody for three days.
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18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I
fear God (Elohim).
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19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your
prison; but you go, carry grai...
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20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified,
and you won’t die.”
They did so.
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21
They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother,
in that we saw the distre...
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22
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin
against the child,’ and you wou...
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23
They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter
between them.
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24
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them,
and spoke to them, and took Si...
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25
Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore
each man’s money into his s...
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26
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from
there.
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27
As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging
place, he saw his money. Behol...
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28
He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my
sack!” Their hearts failed them,...
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29
They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him
all that had happened to them,...
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30
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us
for spies of the country.
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31
We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
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32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the
youngest is today with our fathe...
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33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that
you are honest men: leave one o...
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34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not
spies, but that you are honest...
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35
As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money
was in his sack. When they and their...
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36
Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children!
Joseph is no more, Simeon i...
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37
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I
don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to m...
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38
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm h...