^30–31“And now, sir,” Judah continued, “if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—

NLTNew Living Translation

“And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—now his life is bound up with his life—

KJV 1900King James Version

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

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